Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COM-PLI'ANT-LY, adv.

In a yielding manner.

COM'PLI-CA-CY, n.

A state of being complex or intricate. – Mitford.

COM'PLI-CATE, a.

1. Complex; composed of two or more parts united. Though the particular actions of war are complicate in fact, yet they are separate and distinct in right. – Bacon.
2. In botany, folded together, as the valves of the glume or chaff in some grasses. – Martyn.

COM'PLI-CATE, v.t. [L. complico; con and plico, to fold, weave or knit. See Complex.]

1. Literally, to interweave; to fold and twist together. Hence, to make complex; to involve; to entangle; to unite or connect mutually or intimately, as different things or parts; followed by with. Our offense against God hath been complicated with injury to men. – Tillotson. So we say, a complicated disease; a complicated affair. Commotion in the parts may complicate and dispose them after the manner requisite to make them stick. – Boyle.
2. To make intricate.

COM'PLI-CA-TED, pp.

Interwoven; entangled; involved; intricate; composed of two or more things or parts united.

COM'PLI-CATE-LY, adv.

In a complex manner.

COM'PLI-CATE-NESS, n.

The state of being complicated; involution; intricacy; perplexity. – Hale.

COM'PLI-CA-TING, ppr.

Interweaving; infolding; uniting.

COM'PLI-CA-TION, n.

1. The act of interweaving, or involving two or more things or parts; the state of being interwoven, involved or intimately blended. The notions of a confused knowledge are always full of perplexity and complications.
2. The integral consisting of many things involved or interwoven, or mutually united. By admitting a complication of ideas … the mind is bewildered. – Watts.

COM'PLI-CA-TIVE, a.

Tending, or adapted to involve.

COM'PLICE, n. [It. complice; Fr. Port. and Sp. id.; L. complico, complicitum, complices. See Complicate and Complex.]

One who is united with another in the commission of a crime, or in an ill design; an associate or confederate in some unlawful act or design; an accomplice. The latter is now used. [See Accomplice.] – Shak. Clarendon.

COM-PLIC'I-TY, n.

Complexness; complication.

COM-PLIED', v. [pret. of Comply.]

COM-PLI'ER, n.

One who complies, yields or obeys; a person of ready compliance; a man of an easy, yielding temper. – Swift.

COM'PLI-MENT, n. [Fr. id.; It. complimento; Sp. cumplimiento, completion, perfection, compliment; Port. comprimento, length, fulfillment; compliment, obliging words, from the verb comprir, to fulfill, to perform; Sp. cumplir; It. compiere; L. compleo. See Complete.]

1. An expression of civility, respect or regard; as, to send, or make one's compliments to an absent friend. In this application, the plural is always used. He observed few compliments in matter of arms. – Sidney.
2. A present or favor bestowed. My friend made me a compliment of Homer's Iliad.

COM'PLI-MENT, v.i.

To pass compliments; to use ceremony, or ceremonious language. I make the interlocutors upon occasion compliment with each other. – Boyle.

COM'PLI-MENT, v.t.

1. To praise; to flatter by expressions of approbation, esteem or respect. Monarchs … Should compliment their foes, and shun their friends. – Prior. She compliments Menelaus very handsomely. – Pope.
2. To congratulate; as, to compliment a prince on the birth of a son.
3. To bestow a present; to manifest kindness or regard for, by a present or other favor; as, he complimented us with tickets for the exhibition.

COM-PLI-MENT'AL, a.

Expressive of civility or respect; implying compliments. Languages grow rich and abundant in complimental phrases, and such froth. – Wotton.

COM-PLI-MENT'AL-LY, adv.

In the nature of a compliment; by way of civility, or ceremony. Broome.

COM-PLI-MENT'A-RY, a.

Expressing civility, regard or praise.

COM'PLI-MENT-ED, pp.

Praised.

COM'PLI-MENT-ER, n.

One who compliments; one given to compliments; flatterer. – Johnson.

COM'PLI-MENT-ING, ppr.

Praising, bestowing on as a present.

COM'PLINE, or COM'PLIN, n. [Fr. complie; It. compieta; from L. compleo, complendo, completus.]

The last division of the Romish breviary; the last prayer at night, to be recited after sun-set; so called because it closes the service of the day. – Johnson. Encyc. Taylor.

COM'PLISH, v. [for accomplish, is not now used. – Spenser.]