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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Complicate

Cŏm'pli-cāte, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. COMPLICATED; p. pr. & vb. n. COMPLICATING.] [Lat. complicatus, p. p. of complicare, from com, for con, and plicare, to fold or double up, to twist; Fr. compliquer, Pr., Sp., & Pg. complicar.] 1. To fold or twist together; to interweave. Nor can his complicated sinews fail. Young. 2. To render complex; to involve. Avarice and luxury very often become one complicated principle of action. Addison.

Cŏm'pli-cate, a.

adjective

a. [Lat. complicatus, p. p. of complicare. See supra.] 1. Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated. Though the particular actions of war are complicate in fact, yet they are separate and distinct in right. Bacon. 2. (Bot.) Folded together, as the valves of the glume or chaff in some grasses. Martyn.