a.; also 7–8 amf-. [a. Fr. anfractueux (16th c.), ad. L. anfractuōs-us: see ANFRACTUOSE.] Winding, sinuous, involved; roundabout, circuitous; spiral.

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1621.  Burton, Anat. Mel., I. i. II. iv. Two common anfractuous eares … the one to hold blood, the other aire.

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1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., 167. That famous [horn] … hath anfractuous spires, and cochleary turnings about it.

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1667.  H. More, Div. Dial., ii. § 1 (1713), 88. So intricate, so anfractuous, so unsearchable are the ways of Providence.

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1684.  trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., XVIII. 655. Oftentimes wounds … are anfractuous and oblique.

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1763.  Brit. Mag., IV. 130. This astonishing amfractuous passage, over rocks and precipices.

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1836.  Penny Cycl., s.v. Botany, Anfractuous, doubled up abruptly in several different directions.

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