Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A compound; a complex.
  • noun In anatomy, a broad muscle lying along the back part of the neck, connecting the occiput and the lower cervical and upper dorsal vertebræ, and serving to straighten, incline, and turn the head. Also complicalis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A complex; an aggregate of parts; a complication.

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  • noun A complex; an aggregate of parts; a complication.

Etymologies

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Latin complexus ("embrace").

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Examples

  • a recent vogue for the extensive misuse, usually tautological misuse, of the word "complexus" -- an excellent word if used rarely and for definite purposes.

    Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888

  • Mr. Haseman and those whose bad example he in this instance follows use "complexus" in much the same spirit as that displayed by the famous old lady who derived religious -- instead of scientific -- consolation from the use of "the blessed word Mesopotamia."

    Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888

  • After twenty-eight months of investigations, the full-time labors of some 174 staff members, and at a cost of at least $7.7 million, the Watergate Special Prosecution Force has at last come forth with a summary report, as is required under its charter, which provides the public with what is supposed to be the first full statement of all the criminal acts associated with the complexus of Watergate.

    Black Eyes 2009

  • They have created a complexus of confusion but it all goes back to three or four Satanic heresies.

    Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta chairman of the SSPX commission 2009

  • Hence the conclusion stands that the modern development has created a science formally mathematical and materially economic: a symbolic expression of a complexus of increases and decreases in variable quantities.

    The Pseudo-Science of Economics 2008

  • Attalum comiter accepit, pristinamque uxorem complexus, magno honore apud se habuit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Arctius eam complexus caepi suaviari jamque pariter patentis oris inhalitu cinnameo et occursantis linguae illisu nectareo, &c. 5120.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The soul and all is moved; [5106] Jam pluribus osculis labra crepitabant, animarum quoque mixturam facientes, inter mutuos complexus animas anhelantes,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Cucurrit vero Esau in occursum ejus, et complexus est eum, et jactavit se super collum ejus, et dixit, Qui isti tibi?

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • Cornelium Tacitum arta familiaritate complexus est. '

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

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