<syn>Syn. -- Concession; submission; consent; obedience; performance; execution; acqquiescence; assent.</syn>
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<hw>Com*pli"an*cy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Compliance; disposition to yield to others.</def>
<i>Goldsmith.</i>
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<hw>Com*pli"ant</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive.</def> "The <i>compliant</i> boughs."
<i>Milton.</i>
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<hw>Com*pli"ant*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a compliant manner.</def>
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<hw>Com"pli*ca*cy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A state of being complicate or intricate.</def>
<i>Mitford.</i>
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<hw>Com"pli*cant</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>complicans</ets>, p. pr.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Overlapping, as the elytra of certain beetles.</def>
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<hw>Com"pli*cate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>complicatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>complicare</ets> to fold together. See <er>Complex</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved.</def>
<blockquote>How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How <b>complicate</b>, how wonderful is man! <i>Young.</i></blockquote>
<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Folded together, or upon itself, with the fold running lengthwise.</def>
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<hw>Com"pli*cate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Complicated</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Complicating</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult.</def>
<blockquote>Nor can his <b>complicated</b> sinews fail. <i>Young.</i></blockquote>
<blockquote>Avarice and luxury very often become one <b>complicated</b> principle of action. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>
<blockquote>When the disease is <b>complicated</b> with other diseases. <i>Arbuthnot.</i></blockquote>
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<hw>Com"pli*cate*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a complex manner.</def>
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<hw>Com"pli*cate*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Complexity.</def>
<i>Sir M. Hale.</i>
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