Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for COM'PLI-CATE
COM'PLI-CATE, a.
- 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.
- In botany, folded together, as the valves of the glume or chaff in some grasses. – Martyn.
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