In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
INTRICATELY
elaborately, intricately, in an elaborate way
(adverb) with elaboration; “it was elaborately spelled out”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adverb
intricately (comparative more intricately, superlative most intricately)
In an intricate manner; with involution or infoldings; with perplexity or intricacy.
Source: Wiktionary
In"tri*cate*ly, adv.
Definition: In an intricate manner.
INTRICATE
In"tri*cate, a. Etym: [L. intricatus, p. p. of intricare to entangle, perplex. Cf. Intrigue, Extricate.]
Definition: Entangled; involved; perplexed; complicated; difficult to understand, follow, arrange, or adjust; as, intricate machinery, labyrinths, accounts, plots, etc. His style was fit to convey the most intricate business to the understanding with the utmost clearness. Addison. The nature of man is intricate. Burke.
Syn.
– Intricate, Complex, Complicated. A thing is complex when it is made up of parts; it is complicated when those parts are so many, or so arranged, as to make it difficult to grasp them; it is intricate when it has numerous windings and confused involutions which it is hard to follow out. What is complex must be resolved into its parts; what is complicated must be drawn out and developed; what is intricate must be unraveled.
In"tri*cate, v. t.
Definition: To entangle; to involve; to make perplexing. [Obs.] It makes men troublesome, and intricates all wise discourses. Jer. Taylor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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COVERT
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
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