COMPLICATENESS
Com"pli*cate*ness, n.
Defn: Complexity. Sir M. Hale.
COMPLICATION
Com`pli*ca"tion, n. Etym: [L. compliasion: cf. F. complication.]
1. The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entaglement; complexity. A complication of diseases. Macaulay. Through and beyond these dark complications of the present, the New England founders looked to the great necessities of future times. Palfrey.
2. (Med.)
Defn: A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.
COMPLICE
Com"plice, n.; pl. Complices. Etym: [F., fr. L. complex, -plicis,
closely connected with one, confederate. See Complicate, and cf.
Accomplice.]
Defn: An accomplice. [Obs.]
To quell the rebels and their complices. Shak.
COMPLICITY
Com*plic"i*ty, n.; pl. Complicities. Etym: [F. complicité.]
Defn: The state of being an accomplice; participation in guilt.