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 of a play 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.
In*trigu"er (n*trg"r), n. One who intrigues.
In*trigu"er*y (?), n. Arts or practice of intrigue.
In*trigu"ing*ly (?), adv. By means of, or in the manner of, intrigue.
In*trinse" (-trns"), a. [See Intrinsic, and Intense.] Tightly drawn; or
(perhaps) intricate. [Very rare]
Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain, Which are too intrinse
to unloose.
Shak.
In*trin"sic (n*trn"sk), a. [L. intrinsecus inward, on the inside; intra
within + secus otherwise, beside; akin to E. second: cf. F.
intrinsèque. See Inter-, Second, and cf. Extrinsic.]
1. Inward; internal; hence, true; genuine; real; essential; inherent;
not merely apparent or accidental; -- opposed to extrinsic; as, the
intrinsic value of gold or silver; the intrinsic merit of an action;
the intrinsic worth or goodness of a person.
He was better qualified than they to estimate justly the intrinsic
value of Grecian philosophy and refinement.