ppl. a. Also 7–8 unin-. (UN-1 8.)
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, III. ix. So I in simple course, and unentangled minde, Did suffer drousie lids mine eyes … to blinde.
1622. S. Ward, Christ All in All (1627), 36. He had now nothing left but … Christ, whom hee … would now with vnlimed and vnentangled wings flye vnto.
1647. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., VII. § 218. He was unintangled with any Acquaintance or Friends.
a. 1715. Burnet, Own Time, I. (1766), I. 124. To keep the thread of the narration in an unintangled method.
1779–81. Johnson, L. P., Collins. That this man … passed always unentangled through the snares of life, it would be … temerity to affirm.
1842. J. B. Fraser, Alice Neemroo, I. 20. Its rider, shot forward from its back,… fortunately unentangled by its harness.
1901. H. W. Holden, Justif., 96. We may be free indeed to follow the Lord … unentangled and unembarrassed by any other will.
