To intricate someone; to bring people on board or to get them
onside with an idea or a proposal or an
initiative of some type by getting them
intricated into the process bit by bit, almost without their noticing that they are making a commitment.
When a group was trying to Bring Back the
Ottawa Senators in 1990, a team that had not played in the National Hockey League for nearly 60 years, one of their key advisers, former US
Attorney General, Elliot Richardson (now deceased) said: "First we'll get the League’s Board of Governors
intricated then we'll get the (expansion) franchise!"