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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as plicate.

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  • adjective Alternative form of plicate.

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Examples

  • Illnesses that afflicted the Hurons because of their con-tacts with the whites and because of their lack of basic hygiene com-plicated the missionaries' dealings with the Hurons.

    The Huron Carol written by St. Jean de Brebeuf / 1593-1649 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Illnesses that afflicted the Hurons because of their con-tacts with the whites and because of their lack of basic hygiene com-plicated the missionaries' dealings with the Hurons.

    Archive 2008-12-14 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Former policemen Gerhardus Greef and Pedro Peens who have been i-plicated in the massacre are also due to testify but are unlikely to do so during this week's proceedings. e hearing continues on Wednesday.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • Its people were uncom-plicated, hardworking types interested only in wresting a living from the bountiful soil, not from one another.

    The Metrognome and Other Stories Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990

  • Raf was staring at her, wide-eyed, trying to absorb the com - plicated instructions.

    Time of the Twins Weis, Margaret 1988

  • Raf was staring at her, wide-eyed, trying to absorb the com - plicated instructions.

    Time of the Twins Weis, Margaret 1988

  • That endlessly responsive, marvelously versatile instrument du - plicated the sounds he drew from memory with perfect fidelity, amplifying them so that they filled the chamber around him.

    The Day of the Dissonance Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984

  • Like all com - plicated phenomena in higher organisms, so the mind, as the most complicated and highest function of all

    RECAPITULATION JANE OPPENHEIMER 1968

  • Anoxia is com - plicated by malnutrition, and it is necessary to use hsien medicines.

    LONGEVITY GERALD J. GRUMAN 1968

  • Gassendi, on the other hand, relied upon the grossness and com - plicated shapes of the atoms of hard bodies to account for firmness, the branches and sharp parts becoming interlaced and making movement difficult, if not im - possible.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ROBERT H. KARGON 1968

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