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noun

Complication n.

The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity. "A complication of diseases." "Through and beyond these dark complications of the present, the New England founders looked to the great necessities of future times."

(Med.) A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.

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... unexpected complication, but Dale saw success in it; and after pausing for a few minutes to think, he began to climb sidewise toward it inch by inch over a part that was perilous in the extreme, till he was within four feet of the swinging loop. Then, glancing upward to ...

— The Crystal Hunters - A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps • George Manville Fenn

... ponder about my own special work I need not say. There is not the complication of an English colony, it is true; that makes a ...

— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge

... of parables, denotes that you will be undecided as to the best course to pursue in dissenting to some business complication. To the lover, or young woman, this is a ...

— 10,000 Dreams Interpreted • Gustavus Hindman Miller

... been a stranger. I think, too, that the fragrant cup of tea and the delicate bit of toast, taken to the sick man, may have brought to his mind tender recollections of a time when he lived like a gentleman, and dispelled for a little while the memory of the family troubles, and the complication of misfortunes which had reduced him to poverty and a dying bed in this comfortless ...

— 'Three Score Years and Ten' - Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and Other - Parts of the West • Charlotte Ouisconsin Van Cleve

... entirely original. The last-mentioned play was produced at Court some time before 1590, and we cannot doubt, was attended by our greatest dramatist. At any rate the lessons which Shakespeare learnt from Lyly in the matter of plot complication are visible in the Midsummer Night's Dream, which was produced in 1595[130]. The intricate mechanism of this play, reminding us with its four plots (the Duke and Hippolyta, the lovers, the mechanics, and the fairies) of the miracle with its imposing but unimportant divinities in ...

— John Lyly • John Dover Wilson

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