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perplicare

perplicare [CL per-+plicare] 1 to flex, twine, coil; (p. ppl. perplicitus) entwined, entangled. forsan Aristeus si me constringere nodis / perplicitis vellet Neckam DS IV 771. 2 (mus.) to supply with a plica (that applies to all the notes in a ligature). duplex ‥ longa ascendendo et descendendo plicari potest. ‥ et si sit in fine ligature et ascendendo et descendendo ~ari potest. ‥ ille magne longe que mensuram excedunt unius longe duplicis nunquam ~antur neque ligantur Haudlo 154.

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