2. To carry on a secret and illicit love or amour.
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In*trigue", v. t.
Defn: To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate; to
embarrass. [Obs.]
How doth it [sin] perplex and intrique the whole course of your
lives! Dr. J. Scott.
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In*trigue", n. Etym: [Cf. F. intrique. See Intrigue, v. i.]
1. Intricacy; complication. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.
2. A complicated plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem. Busy meddlers with intrigues of state. Pomfret.
3. The plot or romance; a complicated scheme of designs, actions, and events. Pope.
4. A secret and illicit love affair between two persons of different
sexes; an amour; a liaison.
The hero of a comedy is represented victorious in all his intrigues.
Swift.
Syn.
— Plot; scheme; conspiracy; machination.
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In*trigu"er, n.