Word Meanings - DISINTRICATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To disentangle. "To disintricate the question." Sir W. Hamilton.

Related words: (words related to DISINTRICATE)

• QUESTIONIST
  A candidate for honors or degrees who is near the time of his examination. (more info) 1. A questioner; an inquirer.
• QUESTIONABLENESS
  The quality or state of being questionable, doubtful, or suspicious.
• QUESTION
  1. The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer. 2. Discussion; debate; hence, objection; dispute; doubt; as, the story is true beyond question; he obeyed without question. There arose a question between some
• DISENTANGLE
  1. To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as, to disentangle a skein of yarn. 2. To extricate from complication and
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• QUESTIONNAIRE
  = Questionary, above.
• QUESTIONLESS
  Unquestioning; incurious.
• DISINTRICATE
  To disentangle. "To disintricate the question." Sir W. Hamilton.
• QUESTIONABLY
  In a questionable manner.
• QUESTIONER
  One who asks questions; an inquirer. "Little time for idle questioners." Tennyson.
• QUESTIONABILITY
  The state or condition of being questionable. Stallo.
• QUESTIONARY
  Inquiring; asking questions; testing. "Questionary epistles." Pope.
• QUESTIONABLE
  1. Admitting of being questioned; inviting, or seeming to invite, inquiry. Thou com'st in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee. Shak. 2. Liable to question; subject to be doubted or called in question; problematical; doubtful;
• DISENTANGLEMENT
  The act of disentangling or clearing from difficulties. Warton.
• UNQUESTIONABLE
  1. Not questionable; as, an unquestionable title. 2. Not inviting questions or conversation. Shak. -- Un*ques"tion*a*bly, adv.
• UNQUESTIONED
  1. Not called in question; not doubted. 2. Not interrogated; having no questions asked; not examined or examined into. Shak. She muttering prayers, as holy rites she meant, Through the divided crowd unquestioned went. Dryden. 3. Indisputable; not
• CROSS-QUESTION
  To cross-examine; to subject to close questioning.