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▪ I. complicate, ppl. a. and n.|ˈkɒmplɪkət|
[ad. L. complicāt-us, pa. pple. of complicāre to fold together (see next).]
A. adj.
†1. Interwoven. Obs. or arch.
a1626Bacon War with Spain (R.), The particular actions of war, though they are complicate in fact, yet are they separate and distinct in right. 1844Ld. Houghton Mem. Many Scenes 194 Who weaves the complicate historic woof Out of the rough disorder of mankind.
2. Composed of parts or elements intimately combined or mixed; compound, complex. Now arch. or poet.
1638T. Whitaker Blood of Grape 28 To grant in its temper a complicate mixture, or comprehensive nature. 1658Baxter Saving Faith 77 Affiance..is a complicate Act of the Intellect and Will. 1671Salmon Syn. Med. i. xxxvii. 79 Diseases are various..sometimes simple, and sometimes complicate. a1711Ken Psyche Poet. Wks. 1721 IV. 219 In complicate Disease, Give complicated Ease. 1775–84De Lolme Eng. Const. Advt. 16 The powerful complicate sensation which each sex produces on the other. 1829Southey O. Newman vii, A complicate and wonderful machine.
b. with the additional notion of Intricate, involved, difficult to analyse or unravel.
1672Petty Pol. Anat. Pref., I have chosen Ireland..where the Intrigue of State is not very complicate. 1819Crabbe T. Hall xvii, He felt a loathing for the wretched state Of his concerns, so sad, so complicate. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. (1877) I. xiv. 256 The most difficult and complicate demonstrations.
3. a. Bot. = conduplicate. b. Entomol. Folded on themselves longitudinally, as the wings of many insects.
1866Treas. Bot., Complicate, folded up upon itself.
B. n.
†1. A complicated or complex structure; a combination. Obs.
1664H. More Myst. Iniq. i. vii. 22 The worshipping of an Image, or the Complicate of an Image and a Dæmon actuating it, for a Deity. 1697Wallis in Phil. Trans. XIX. 653 Whether in..the Duplicate, Sub-duplicate, or how otherwise Complicate thereof.
†2. One complicated or mixed up with the affairs of another; an accomplice. Obs.
1662R. L'Estrange Memento i. 105 Observe likewise the Temper, and Quality of his Complicates and Creatures.
▪ II. complicate, v.|ˈkɒmplɪkeɪt|
[f. L. complicāt- ppl. stem of complicāre, f. com- together + plicā-re to fold.]
†1. trans. To fold, wrap, or twist together; to intertwine; to entangle one with another. Obs.
a1631Donne in Selections (1840) 86 Sin enwrapped and complicated in sin. 1652Gaule Magastrom. 10 Is not this scroal or book here said to be complicated or rolled up or together. 1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 34 There they lie all dead, twisted and complicated all together, like a knot of Eels. 1691Ray Creation ii. (1704) 334 Vessels curl'd, circumgyrated and complicated together.
†2. To intertwine, unite, or combine intimately.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. iii. i. iii. iii. (1651) 428 By this happy union of love..the heavens [are] annexed, and divine souls complicated. a1677Barrow Serm. (1810) V. 64 With this wisdom are always complicated no less evident marks of goodness. 1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. cxxii, The Wisdom of our Ancestors in Complicating the Office of the Lord Admiral with the Lord Mayors in its Conservacy.
3. To combine or mix up with in a complex, intricate, or involved way.
[a1631Donne in Selections (1840) 113 God hath complicated almost all our bodily diseases of these times, with an extraordinary sadness.] 1673Lady's Call. ii. §3. 87 When 'tis in a matter of trust 'tis complicated with treachery also. 1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet (J.), When a disease is complicated with other diseases, one must consider that which is most dangerous. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1872) I. ii. 94 A point at which the history of the great English revolution begins to be complicated with the history of foreign politics. a1853Robertson Lect. (1858) 270 The subject is complicated with difficulties.
†4. To form by complication; to compound. Obs.
1624Donne Devotions 68 (T.) Monsters compiled and complicated of divers parents and kinds. 1690Locke Hum. Und. ii. xii. (ed. 3) 79 Ideas..such as..a Man, an Army, the Universe..complicated of various simple Ideas. 1707E. Ward Hud. Rediv. (1715) ii. ix, An execrable Deed; So complicated of all Evils, That it outdid the very Devils.
5. To make complex or intricate (as by the introduction of other matter); to render involved or complex. Cf. complicated 3.
1832tr. Sismondi's Ital. Rep. x. 228 The war of Lombardy was complicated by its connection with another war. a1856Sir W. Hamilton Logic (1860) II. App. 465 These schemes [of logical notations] thus tend rather to complicate than to explicate. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. §27. 382 Where no medial moraines occur to complicate the phenomenon. 1879Lockyer Elem. Astron. ix. li. 323 The phenomena of the tides are greatly complicated by the irregular distribution of land.
6. intr. (for refl.) To become complicated. rare.
1873H. Spencer Study Sociol. xiii. (1877) 324 Effects which as they diffuse complicate incalculably. |