v. Also 7 unin-. [UN-2 3.] trans. To disentangle.
1610. Donne, Pseudo-Martyr, 226. It is impossible to … vnentangle our consciences by any of those Rules.
1655. trans. Sorel’s Com. Hist. Francion, IV. 13. All this was intermingled … in a more than a barbarous confusion, which was so uneasie to unintangle [etc.].
1887. Bowen, Æneid, VI. 29. Dædalus … of himself unentangled the woven trick of the grove.
Hence Unentangler. rare–1.
1610. Donne, Pseudo-Martyr, 345. The late vn-entangler of perplexities,… who vndertakes to cleare so many cases, which Nauarrus and many others left in suspence.
