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complice|ˈkɒmplɪs|
Also 5 compliss, 5–7 -plyse, 6 -plise, -please.
[a. F. complice (14th c. in Littré), ad. L. complex, complicem closely connected, confederate, participant, f. com- together + stem plic- fold: cf. simplex, duplex, etc.]
†1. gen. One associated in any affair with another, the latter being regarded as the principal; an associate, confederate, comrade. Obs. (having passed into the special sense 2, by which also most of the later instances of this are coloured.)
1475Bk. Noblesse 39 Be it the duke of Breteyne, the duke of Orliens, or any suche other his complisses. 1513Douglas æneis ix. xi. 51 Bot thai wyth all thar complicis in fyght War dung abak. 1591Horsey Trav. (Hakl. Soc.) 190 The centinell brought me to the statholder..he and his complices strickly examined and searched me. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, i. i. 163. 1625 W. Pemble Justification (1629) 42 Bellarmine and his complices dispute eagerly against justification by faith alone. 1656Trapp Comm. Matt vi. 24 such enemies as Chedorlaomer and his complices. 1730–6Bailey (folio), Complice, A partner or associate in an action. a1734North Exam. i. ii. §19. 40.
2. spec. An associate in crime, a confederate with the principal offender. (From the frequent early use of the word in connexion with crime, this sense became predominant by 1600, and was the only one recognised by Johnson in 1755.) arch., the current word being accomplice.
[1471Arriv. Edw. IV, i. (Camden), By the traitorous means of his great rebel, Richard, Earl of Warwick, and his complices. 1533–4Act 25 Hen. VIII, c. 12 Conspiracies..of the said Elizabeth, and other her complices.] 1581Marbeck Bk. of Notes 428 Iudas [of Galilee] was hanged together with his complises. 15941st Pt. Contention (1843) 68 To quell these Traitors and their compleases. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. 43 The complices sould not be punissed before the principall malefactour. 1613R. C. Table Alph. (ed. 3), Complices, fellowes in wicked matters. 1743Tindal Rapin's Hist. Eng. II. xvii. 96 He was accused of being complice in the murder. 1813Scott Rokeby i. xx, His pride startled at the tone In which his complice..Asserted guilt's equality. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. V. iii. 358 The French cabinet was unwilling to appear openly as the complice of the insurgents.
†b. Said of things. Obs.
1543Necess. Doctr. Chr. Man in Strype Eccl. Mem. I. App. ix. 381 That all such abuses as heretofore have been complices concerning this matter be clearly put away. |