complicationn.

/kɒmplɪˈkeɪʃən/

Etymology: < Latin complicātiōn-em, noun of action fromcomplicāre to complicate v.: compare French complication (16th cent. in Littré).

†1. The action of folding together; the condition of being folded together. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > folding or folded condition > [noun] > action or condition of folding together

complication1611

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Complication, a complication, or folding together.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. xxi. 266 The complication or pectination of the fingers was an Hieroglyphick of impediment.

1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 76 The complication of the Seed-leaves of some Plants in the Seed.

†2. The action of combining intimately, the condition of being so combined; combination, conjunction. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being combined > [noun] > action or fact of combining

compositionc1386

combining1552

combination1604

coalition1605

systasis1605

combinement1606

integration1620

conflation1626

complexion1628

coincidence1647

integrating1654

complication1655

consolidationa1676

composure1715

join-worka1774

amalgamy1788

amalgamation1828

synthesizing1830

synthesisa1834

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. viii. 22 Dr. Fuller..in complication with other Commissioners, pronounced the sentence.

1656 T. Hobbes Six Lessons i. 2 in Elements Philos. Superficies made of the complication of two Lengths, or the Measure taken, two wayes.

a1685 Jordan Poems (T.) All the parts in complication roll And every one contributes to the whole.

1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) xvi. 141 There is such a Complication of all the Precepts of the Law of God, both with one another, and with the Authority of the Lawgiver, that he who offends in one point, is guilty of all.

a. An involved condition or structure produced by the intimate interweaving of various elements.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > state of being composite > [noun]

composition?1541

complication1666

compoundedness1697

complexity1734

compoundness1768

discreteness1862

compositeness1881

1666 J. Smith Γηροκομία Βασιλικὴ 112 (T.) Many admirable combinations, complications, and intertextures of them all, which are not elsewhere in the body to be found.

1708 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1743) i. iii. x. 226 This house has been..sometimes..a Priory, or College, sometimes..a Spittal or Hospital..Tis now a complication of both.

1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ i. 8 That complication of probabilities by which the Christian history is attested.

†b. = complex n. i. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > [noun] > a complex whole

wholec1450

complexa1652

complexum1664

complexion1678

complication1750

synthesis1865

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > state of being composite > [noun] > a composite thing or complex whole

aggregatea1425

wholec1450

partage1593

compagesa1638

complexa1652

composite1656

complexum1664

complicate1664

complexion1678

wholenessa1681

compagea1682

complication1750

synthesis1865

1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 76. ⁋1 He takes a survey of the whole complication of his character.

a. The action of combining, or condition of being combined, in an entangled, involved, intricate, or perplexing manner; complicated condition, structure, or nature; involved relation.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > complication or complexity > [noun]

intricatenessa1586

perplexednessa1586

involution1611

mixture1614

complicateness1656

puzzledness1662

complexedness1690

complexation1707

complexness1727

complexity1790

complication1793

complicacy18..

complicatedness1818

complicity1847

involvedness1867

multiplexity1938

1793 T. Beddoes Observ. Nature Demonstrative Evid. 25 Owing partly to the length of the demonstration, and partly to the complication of the diagram.

1876 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches I. i. ii. 78 The Turkish race..made its way on amid tumult and complication.

b. with a and plural becoming quasi-concrete: = A complicated or entangled state of relations, matters, or affairs; a complicated mass or stucture. Also (Medicine), an additional disorder or condition that develops during the course of an existing one; frequently in plural. complication of diseases: ‘a collection of several distempers that seize on the body at the same time, especially if they depend one upon another’ (Bailey).

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > collection of

complication1647

pathology1679

nosology1851

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > types > [noun] > complication

complication1647

the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [noun] > difficulty or complexity > instance of

labyrinthc1450

node1572

meander1576

meanderc1595

intricacy1611

complication1647

intrigo1648

intrigue1660

intricate1664

intricoa1670

complexity1794

sinuosity1827

complicacy1849

1647 T. May Hist. Parl. i. vii. 73 So full of mixtures, involutions, and complications, as nothing is cleare, nothing sincere, in any of their proceedings.

1697 T. Nevett Treat. Consumpt. 69 With a complication of Convulsive and Epileptick Fits.

1730 J. Southall Treat. Buggs 5 I fell sick, had a Complication of the Country Distempers.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. 239 The only prince on whom, at the outset of these complications, he had a right to depend.

1877 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 12 Complications include such morbid conditions as are liable to arise during the course of a disease.

1883 T. Holmes & J. W. Hulke Syst. Surg. (ed. 3) I. 425 The co~existence of a dislocation with a fracture, is a serious complication.

1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. (1968) 32c Nervousness, rheumatism, headache, dropsy and kidney diseases are frequent complications of obesity.

1934 G. B. Shaw Too True to be Good i. 29 Can she possibly survive this last terrible complication. The Monster Measles! He mistook it for influenza.

1959 W. Golding Free Fall iii. 70 I got complications, had ups and downs. I was a lifetime in that ward.

1985 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 1 June 1615/1 The risk of death by complication of diarrhoea, aetiology, age, and nutritional state was analysed by a logit regression model.

c. Psychology. The simultaneous association of the perceptions or ideas received through different senses.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > psychology > mental image > [noun] > association of sense impressions

complication1886

synaesthesia1895

1816 J. F. Herbart in Werke (1850) V. iii. ii. 127 Blosse Complicationen oder Verschmelzungen.]

1886 J. M. Baldwin tr. T. A. Ribot German Psychol. Today i. 34 The representations [sc. states of consciousness] belong to different continuities; ‘they can unite totally in such a way as to form a single force, which enters as such in the calculation’. Herbart calls this a complication or an entire complex (union of a sound and a color).

1894 J. E. Creighton & E. B. Titchener tr. W. M. Wundt Lect. Human & Animal Psychol. 285 These connections of ideas of disparate senses which are referred to the same objects, and so belong closely together, we may term with Herbart complications.

1898 G. F. Stout Man. Psychol. I. 91 The process is called complication, because the result is merely a change in the constitution of A, and for the most part an increase in its complexity.

1958 H. B. English & A. C. English Dict. Psychol. Terms 103/1 Complication, a combination of sense data from different senses, e.g. taste and smell of food.

d. Something that complicates or adds difficulties; a complicating factor.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [noun] > difficulty or complexity > that which complicates

complication1903

1903 G. B. Shaw Man & Superman i. 9 This chap's in love with her: thats another complication.

1919 P. G. Wodehouse Their Mutual Child i. vii. 83 He liked a calm life, free from complications, and now they were springing up on every side.

1949 C. Fry Lady's not for Burning i. 7 Alizon. Is it a riddle? Richard. Very likely. Certainly a considerable complication.

1966 T. Frisby There's Girl in my Soup i. i. 20 You're on to a good thing, no complications and no cost.

1982 Foreign Affairs LXI. 87 Political complications added to the military difficulties and drew the Syrian regime..into the worst possible quagmire.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	complication
释义	complicationn. /kɒmplɪˈkeɪʃən/ Etymology: < Latin complicātiōn-em, noun of action fromcomplicāre to complicate v.: compare French complication (16th cent. in Littré). †1. The action of folding together; the condition of being folded together. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > folding or folded condition > [noun] > action or condition of folding together complication1611 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Complication, a complication, or folding together. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. xxi. 266 The complication or pectination of the fingers was an Hieroglyphick of impediment. View more context for this quotation 1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 76 The complication of the Seed-leaves of some Plants in the Seed. †2. The action of combining intimately, the condition of being so combined; combination, conjunction. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being combined > [noun] > action or fact of combining compositionc1386 combining1552 combination1604 coalition1605 systasis1605 combinement1606 integration1620 conflation1626 complexion1628 coincidence1647 integrating1654 complication1655 consolidationa1676 composure1715 join-worka1774 amalgamy1788 amalgamation1828 synthesizing1830 synthesisa1834 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. viii. 22 Dr. Fuller..in complication with other Commissioners, pronounced the sentence. 1656 T. Hobbes Six Lessons i. 2 in Elements Philos. Superficies made of the complication of two Lengths, or the Measure taken, two wayes. a1685 Jordan Poems (T.) All the parts in complication roll And every one contributes to the whole. 1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) xvi. 141 There is such a Complication of all the Precepts of the Law of God, both with one another, and with the Authority of the Lawgiver, that he who offends in one point, is guilty of all. 3. a. An involved condition or structure produced by the intimate interweaving of various elements. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > state of being composite > [noun] composition?1541 complication1666 compoundedness1697 complexity1734 compoundness1768 discreteness1862 compositeness1881 1666 J. Smith Γηροκομία Βασιλικὴ 112 (T.) Many admirable combinations, complications, and intertextures of them all, which are not elsewhere in the body to be found. 1708 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1743) i. iii. x. 226 This house has been..sometimes..a Priory, or College, sometimes..a Spittal or Hospital..Tis now a complication of both. 1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ i. 8 That complication of probabilities by which the Christian history is attested. †b. = complex n. i. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > [noun] > a complex whole wholec1450 complexa1652 complexum1664 complexion1678 complication1750 synthesis1865 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > state of being composite > [noun] > a composite thing or complex whole aggregatea1425 wholec1450 partage1593 compagesa1638 complexa1652 composite1656 complexum1664 complicate1664 complexion1678 wholenessa1681 compagea1682 complication1750 synthesis1865 1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 76. ⁋1 He takes a survey of the whole complication of his character. 4. a. The action of combining, or condition of being combined, in an entangled, involved, intricate, or perplexing manner; complicated condition, structure, or nature; involved relation. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > complication or complexity > [noun] intricatenessa1586 perplexednessa1586 involution1611 mixture1614 complicateness1656 puzzledness1662 complexedness1690 complexation1707 complexness1727 complexity1790 complication1793 complicacy18.. complicatedness1818 complicity1847 involvedness1867 multiplexity1938 1793 T. Beddoes Observ. Nature Demonstrative Evid. 25 Owing partly to the length of the demonstration, and partly to the complication of the diagram. 1876 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches I. i. ii. 78 The Turkish race..made its way on amid tumult and complication. b. with a and plural becoming quasi-concrete: = A complicated or entangled state of relations, matters, or affairs; a complicated mass or stucture. Also (Medicine), an additional disorder or condition that develops during the course of an existing one; frequently in plural. complication of diseases: ‘a collection of several distempers that seize on the body at the same time, especially if they depend one upon another’ (Bailey). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > collection of complication1647 pathology1679 nosology1851 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > types > [noun] > complication complication1647 the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [noun] > difficulty or complexity > instance of labyrinthc1450 node1572 meander1576 meanderc1595 intricacy1611 complication1647 intrigo1648 intrigue1660 intricate1664 intricoa1670 complexity1794 sinuosity1827 complicacy1849 1647 T. May Hist. Parl. i. vii. 73 So full of mixtures, involutions, and complications, as nothing is cleare, nothing sincere, in any of their proceedings. 1697 T. Nevett Treat. Consumpt. 69 With a complication of Convulsive and Epileptick Fits. 1730 J. Southall Treat. Buggs 5 I fell sick, had a Complication of the Country Distempers. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. 239 The only prince on whom, at the outset of these complications, he had a right to depend. 1877 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 12 Complications include such morbid conditions as are liable to arise during the course of a disease. 1883 T. Holmes & J. W. Hulke Syst. Surg. (ed. 3) I. 425 The co~existence of a dislocation with a fracture, is a serious complication. 1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. (1968) 32c Nervousness, rheumatism, headache, dropsy and kidney diseases are frequent complications of obesity. 1934 G. B. Shaw Too True to be Good i. 29 Can she possibly survive this last terrible complication. The Monster Measles! He mistook it for influenza. 1959 W. Golding Free Fall iii. 70 I got complications, had ups and downs. I was a lifetime in that ward. 1985 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 1 June 1615/1 The risk of death by complication of diarrhoea, aetiology, age, and nutritional state was analysed by a logit regression model. c. Psychology. The simultaneous association of the perceptions or ideas received through different senses. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > mental image > [noun] > association of sense impressions complication1886 synaesthesia1895 1816 J. F. Herbart in Werke (1850) V. iii. ii. 127 Blosse Complicationen oder Verschmelzungen.] 1886 J. M. Baldwin tr. T. A. Ribot German Psychol. Today i. 34 The representations [sc. states of consciousness] belong to different continuities; ‘they can unite totally in such a way as to form a single force, which enters as such in the calculation’. Herbart calls this a complication or an entire complex (union of a sound and a color). 1894 J. E. Creighton & E. B. Titchener tr. W. M. Wundt Lect. Human & Animal Psychol. 285 These connections of ideas of disparate senses which are referred to the same objects, and so belong closely together, we may term with Herbart complications. 1898 G. F. Stout Man. Psychol. I. 91 The process is called complication, because the result is merely a change in the constitution of A, and for the most part an increase in its complexity. 1958 H. B. English & A. C. English Dict. Psychol. Terms 103/1 Complication, a combination of sense data from different senses, e.g. taste and smell of food. d. Something that complicates or adds difficulties; a complicating factor. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [noun] > difficulty or complexity > that which complicates complication1903 1903 G. B. Shaw Man & Superman i. 9 This chap's in love with her: thats another complication. 1919 P. G. Wodehouse Their Mutual Child i. vii. 83 He liked a calm life, free from complications, and now they were springing up on every side. 1949 C. Fry Lady's not for Burning i. 7 Alizon. Is it a riddle? Richard. Very likely. Certainly a considerable complication. 1966 T. Frisby There's Girl in my Soup i. i. 20 You're on to a good thing, no complications and no cost. 1982 Foreign Affairs LXI. 87 Political complications added to the military difficulties and drew the Syrian regime..into the worst possible quagmire. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1611
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