inexplicabilis

ĭn-explĭcābĭlis, e, adj., that cannot be unfolded or loosened, inextricable, intricate (class. only in the trop. signif.).

I.

Lit.:

vinculum,

Curt. 3, 1, 13:

error viarum,

Plin. 36, 13, 19, § 87:

laquei,

Quint. 5, 10, 101.—

B.

Transf.:

viae continuis imbribus,

impassable, Liv. 40, 33, 2. —

II.

Trop., inexplicable:

o rem, inquis, difficilem et inexplicabilem! atqui explicanda est,

Cic. Att. 8, 3, 6; 10, 2, 2; 15, 9, 2; id. Ac. 2, 29, 95; 2, 30, 97:

facilitas,

Liv. 37, 52, 9:

ambiguitas,

Gell. 14, 2, 3:

multitudo,

innumerable, Plin. 34, 7, 17, § 37:

de generibus singulis disserere immensum et inexplicabile est,

impossible, id. 23, 1, 19, § 32:

bellum minitari,

implacable, Tac. A. 3, 73 (al. inexpiabile).— Adv.: ĭnexplĭcābĭlĭter, inextricably, inexplicably (post-class.):

implicare,

Aug. Ep. 255; App. M. 2, p. 115, 21.