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intrigue
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intrigue \In*trigue"\ ([i^]n*tr[=e]g"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Intrigued (-tr[=e]gd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Intriguing.] [F. intriguer, OF. intriquer, entriquer; cf. It. intrigare. See Intricate, Extricate.]
To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.
To carry on a secret and illicit love or amour.
Intrigue \In*trigue"\, v. t. 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.
Intrigue \In*trigue"\, n. [Cf. F. intrique. See Intrigue, v. i.]
Intricacy; complication. [Obs.]
--Sir M. Hale.-
A complicated plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
Busy meddlers with intrigues of state.
--Pomfret. The plot of a play or romance; a complicated scheme of designs, actions, and events.
--Pope.-
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "to trick, deceive, cheat" (earlier entriken, late 14c.), from French intriguer (16c.), from Italian intrigare "to plot, meddle," from Latin intricare "entangle" (see intricate). Meaning "to plot or scheme" first recorded 1714; that of "to excite curiosity" is from 1894. Related: Intrigued; intriguing (1680s, "plotting, scheming;" meaning "exciting curiosity" is from 1909).
1640s, probably from intrigue (v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem. 2 The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters. 3 Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme. 2 (context transitive English) To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
WordNet
n. a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends [syn: machination]
a clandestine love affair
Wikipedia
Intrigue is a solitaire card game which is played using two decks of playing cards. It is similar to another solitaire game of Salic Law, but it also involves the queens and building in the foundations goes both ways.
First, one queen is removed from the rest of the deck and placed on the layout as the base for the first tableau column.
As they become available, all fives and sixes are placed at the foundations above the queens. The fives are built down to Aces, then to Kings, while the sixes are built up to Jacks, all regardless of suit.
Over the first queen, the cards are dealt over it until another queen appears. This new queen becomes the base for a new tableau column and cards are dealt over it. This is repeated until all eight queens are uncovered and all cards are dealt.
During the dealing, all fives and sixes are immediately placed in the foundations and any card that be built on the foundations must be placed there.
Once all cards are dealt and all those that can be built in the foundations make their way there, building continues. The top card of each column is available for play on the foundations. A column containing only a queen is considered empty and any card can be placed on it. There is no building in the tableau.
The game is won when all cards are built on the foundations with the face cards on top.
Intrigue is a Sámi band formed in 1989 in Kárášjohka Karasjok, Norway, that sings in North Sami and English.
Intrigue is a 1947 film noir film directed by Edwin L. Marin and starring George Raft, June Havoc and Helena Carter. It was the first of two films Raft made for his own production company, Star Films, with producer Sam Bischoff.
Intrigue is the sixth episode of the American television series Revenge. It premiered on ABC on October 26, 2011.
It was written by Dan Dworkin and Jay Beattie and directed by Tim Hunter.
Intrigue'' (Spanish:Intriga'') is a 1942 Spanish comedy mystery film directed by Antonio Román and starring Blanca de Silos and Manolo Morán.
Usage examples of "intrigue".
From time spent with Jones, Adams decided he was the most ambitious and intriguing officer in the American navy.
Spiritual Advisor and anything they can learn about the barbarian war and the intrigues within the Empire.
In Johnstown this unusual currency would have caused a stir, but Albany was a town built on some two hundred years of high intrigue and trading shenanigans.
This intrigued me a great deal, the more so after I had discovered that he was extremely well-informed about all aspects of Arthurian studies.
Such intrepid virtue, which had escaped pure and unsullied from the intrigues courts, the habits of business, and the arts of his profession, reflects more lustre on the memory of Papinian, than all his great employments, his numerous writings, and the superior reputation as a lawyer, which he has preserved through every age of the Roman jurisprudence.
Certain it is that in Asuncion they played a different part from that played by them in the mission territory, and no doubt mixed, as did the other Orders of religion, in the intrigues which never seemed to cease in the restless capital of Paraguay.
Except for occasional spells of depression he remained confident that he would achieve his goal - not by force and scarcely by winning a parliamentary majority, but by the means which had carried Schleicher and Papen to the top: by backstairs intrigue, a game that two could play.
He had so far found only a few references in old books that talked about the Valley of the Lost, and the Baka Ban Mana, but what he found was intriguing.
He had taught physics at a Bloomington, Indiana, high school for twenty years, he said, and the beanstalk had been intriguing him the entire time we had been riding it.
To Bedaux, this was a mere incident in a life crowded with adventure and intrigue.
Some slight disturbances, though they were suppressed almost as soon as excited, in Syria and the frontiers of Armenia, afforded the enemies of the church a very plausible occasion to insinuate, that those troubles had been secretly fomented by the intrigues of the bishops, who had already forgotten their ostentatious professions of passive and unlimited obedience.
Even more intriguing, the vehicle blocking his view was an American Red Cross Bloodmobile, and two volunteers were unfurling a banner that read give the gift of life--blood drive today.
He was intrigued and still frightened by the sense of being caught up in events as preordained as the course of a bobsled in a luge chute, but he was not surprised.
She knew the hatred of the Cabinets of Europe towards France, and she was sure, by her intrigues and subsidies, of arming them on her side whenever her plans reached maturity.
Spectroscopy revealed that the surface water was full of intriguing molecular debris, but guessing the relationship of any of it to the living carpets was like trying to reconstruct flesher biochemistry by studying their ashes.