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complect, v.|kəmˈplɛkt|
[ad. L. complect-i, in late L. complect-ĕre, to embrace, encircle, etc., f. com- + plectĕre to plait, twine. Sense 2 follows the analytical sense of the L.]
†1. trans. To embrace. lit. and fig. Obs.
1523Ld. Berners Froiss. Pref. 1 As the celestyall bodyes aboue complecte all and at euery tyme the vniuersall worlde. Ibid. 2 Hystorie..representyng the actes, gestes, and dedes done, complecteth all profyte. 1575R. B. Appius & Virg. in Hazl. Dodsley IV. 145 Then, tender arms, complect the neck. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 278 Mace is a thin membrane..which covers and complects the nutmeg.
2. To weave or connect together; to interweave.
1578Banister Hist. Man i. 35 The Ligament..complectyng together the legge and Fibula. 1830Carlyle History, Misc. (1857) II. 172 Each atom is ‘chained’ and complected with all! 1881Mod. Rev. Jan. 160 His art aims were complected with his personal objects.
Hence comˈplected ppl. a.1, interwoven, complicated. (Affected by Carlyle.)
1828Carlyle Werner Misc. (1888) I. 118 A misshapen, lumbering, complected coil. 1831― Sart. Res. i. viii. Infinitely complected tissues of Meditation. Ibid. ii. iii, The infinitely-complected departments of social business. |