To untie or loosen a knot; to disentangle or solve a difficult problem.
From Latin 'enodare' (to unknot), combining 'e-' (out) + 'nodus' (knot), used in English from the 16th century onward.
The word 'enodate' reveals how Renaissance thinkers loved metaphors—they used physical knots as metaphors for logic problems and mysteries, so 'enodating' an argument meant literally 'unknotting' its confusion.
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