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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Complicate

Com′pli·cate (kŏm′plĭ·kāt), a. [L. complicatus, p. p. of complicare to fold together. See Complex.] 1. Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man! Young.

2. (Bot.) Folded together, or upon itself, with the fold running lengthwise.

Com′pli·cate (·kāt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Complicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Complicating.] To fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult.

Nor can his complicated sinews fail. Young.

Avarice and luxury very often become one complicated principle of action. Addison.

When the disease is complicated with other diseases. Arbuthnot.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.