entanglingly

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree Middle English entanglen English entangling Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English entanglingly From entangling + -ly.

1. So as to entangle.

   “We may put the Exposition it self to the same Test, and judge by that, whether the Anonymus had reason to upbraid the Author of this Exposition with those rambling and general Terms in which (says he) he entanglingly wraps up the most difficult matters.”

   “The rest of the road presented still steeper pitches, deeper bogs, and more entanglingly strewn rocks.”