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comˈplexify, v.
[f. L. complex-us + -fy.]
a. trans. To make complex or complicated. rare.
1830W. Taylor Hist. Surv. Germ. Poetry III. 140 There is an underplot..which complexifies the incidents.
b. intr. To become (more) complex or complicated. rare.
1914Geddes & Thomson Sex iv. 94 The tendency in matter to complexify.
Hence comˌplexifiˈcation, comˈplexifying, the action of becoming (more) complex or complicated; comˈplexified ppl. a.
1923Glasgow Herald 10 Nov. 4 There is one line of complexifying which is almost certainly open, and that is an increase in the intricacy of inter-relations among the nerve-cells. 1929H. B. Alexander Truth & Faith 250 No doubt there has been complexification. 1932J. A. Thomson Sci. Riddles xlvi. 297 This process of complexifying or differentiation was greatly assisted by the hand of life. 1959B. Wall tr. Teilhard de Chardin's Phenomenon of Man i. 48 Matter has obeyed from the beginning..the law of ‘complexification’. 1962C. E. Raven Teilhard de Chardin iv. 75 Having accepted the whole cosmic process as one, continuous, complexified and convergent, he can regard it with an unfaltering hope. |