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complicated, ppl. a.|ˈkɒmplɪkeɪtɪd|
[f. prec. v. + -ed.]
†1. Folded together. Obs.
1660Sharrock Vegetables 36 A plica or folding made the long way of the leafe, not overthwart as in Sicamores and other complicated leaves of seeds. 1719Young Paraphr. Job (R.), See with what strength his harden'd loins are bound..Nor can his complicated sinews fail.
†2. Tangled. Obs.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. v. xxi. 267 The feares of polling Elvelockes or complicated haires of the head. 1713Swift Faggot Wks. IV. i. 8 In vain: the complicated wands Were much too strong for all their hands.
3. Consisting of an intimate combination of parts or elements not easy to unravel or separate; involved, intricate, confused.
1656tr. Hobbes's Elem. Philos. (1839) 314 If the question be much complicated, there cannot..be constituted a certain rule. 1747Wesley Prim. Physic. (1762) p. xiv, Unless in some few complicated cases. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. xv, The complicated sensations which are felt from the pain of a recent injury, and the pleasure of approaching vengeance. 1856Sir B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. I. v. 182 In birds the eye is a more complicated..organ than it is in our own species. 1859Seeley Ecce Homo iii. (ed. 8) 24 A complicated and intellectual civilization. 1884Gladstone in Standard 29 Feb. 2/5 The case of Ireland is rather more complicated.
†4. Complex, compound: the opposite of simple.
1667Milton P.L. x. 523 Thick swarming now With complicated monsters. a1711Ken Psyche Poet. Wks. 1721 IV. 219 Among the Saints I'll concerts raise, To sing thee complicated Praise. 1780Harris Philolog. Enq. Wks. (1841) 429 Thus are all fables or stories either simple or complicated.
5. Surgery. complicated fracture: a fracture with an injury to adjacent viscera, a blood-vessel, etc., which complicates the case; formerly used in a wider sense, including compound and comminuted fracture.
1745tr. Van Swieten's Boerhaave III. 136 If accompanied with a wound, contusion, inflammation, an ulcer or many fragments..is then called a complicated fracture. 1840R. Liston Elem. Surg. (ed. 2) 684 Fracture may be complicated, with wound or displacement of a neighbouring joint. 1876T. Bryant Pract. Surg. II. 417 Fractures are very often complicated with extravasation of blood. |