Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.