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Show C o COoO We are free from any neccffary determination o our will to any particular action, and from a neceflary compliance with our defire, fet upon any particular, and then appearing preferable, good Locke Let the king meet compliance in your looks A free and ready yielding to his withes Rowe ‘The attions to which the world folicits our comPliancey are fins, which forfeit eternal expectations Rogers What compliances will remove diflenfion, whil the liberty continues of profefling what new opi nions we pleafe Swift 2. A dufpofition to yield to others ; com- piaifance He was a man of few words, and of great compliance; and ufually delivered that as his opinion ‘which he forefaw would be grateful to the king Clarendon ComPrLi"aNT. adj. [from comply. 1. Yielding ; bending The compliant bough 'Yiel'de.d them Miltor's Paradife Loft 2. Civil ; complaifant 7o CO'MPLICATE. w. a. [complico, Latin. 1. To entangle one with another; to join ~ to involve mutually Though the particular alions of war are complicate in fadt, yet they are feparate and diftinét i Bacon ‘right In cafe our offence againft God hath been com2licated with injury to men, we fhould make ref titution Tillotfon ‘When the difeafe is complicated with other difsafes, one muft confider that which is moft dan The notions of a confufed knowledge are alway full of perplexity and complications, and feldom i Wilkins order 3. The integral confifting of many thing involved, perplexed, and united By admitting a complication of ideas, and takin too many things at once into one queftion, the min Watts's Logick is dazzled and bewildered Co'mprick. n. /. [Fr. from complex, a affociate, low Lat.] One who 1s unite with others in an ill defign; an affociate ; a confederate ; an accomplice To arms, victorious noble father To quell the rebels and their complices Shakefpeare's Henry V Juftice was afterwards done upon the offenders the principal being hanged and quartered in Smithfield; and divers of his chief complices executed i Hayward divers parts of the realm The marquis prevailed with the king, that h might only turn his brother out of the garrifon after juftice was done upon his complices. Clarendon ComrLIER. 7. /o [from comply.] A ma of an eafy temper; a man of read compliance Suppofe a hundred new employments were erected on purpofe to gratify compliers, an infupportabl difficulty would remain CO'MPLIMENT. #. f An aé& or expreflion o underftood to includ and to mean lefs tha is properly complement Swift [compliment, Fr. civility, ufuall fome hypocrify it declares: thi fomething {uper fluous, or more than enough H obferved few compliments in matter of arms fo many complicated circumftances, afpeéts but fuch as proud anger did indite to him." Sidney My fervant, Sir? *Twas never merry worl Since lowly feigning was call'd compliment and fituations, with regard to time and place, perfons and things, that it ig impoffible for any on to pafs a right judgment concerning them, without entering inte moft of thefe circumftances Y' are fervant to the duke Oxfino, youth. Shak One whom the mufick of his own vain tongu Doth ravifh, like enchanting harmony A man of compliments, whom right and wron gerous Arbuthnot on Diet There are a multitude of human ations, whic hav Watts 2. 'T'o unite by involution of parts one i another Commotion in the parts may make them appl themfelves one to another, or complicate and difpof them after the manner requifite to make them ftick Boyle's Hiftory of Firmnefs Have chofe as umpire of their meeting Skakefp What honour that But tedious wafte of time, to fit and hea So many hollow compliments and lyes Outlandith flatteries Milton's Paradife Regained Virtue, religion, heaven, and eternal happinefs are not trifles to be given up in a compliment, or facrificed to a jeft Rogers 3. To form by complication ; to form b 7o Co'MPLIMENT. @.a. [from the noun. the union of feveral parts into one inTo footh with aés or expreflions of retegral fe pra e t flat t {pe Dreadful was the di ©f hiffing through the hall thick fwarming no ‘With complicated montfters, head and tail Milton's Paradife Lof? A man, an army, the univerfe, are complicated o warious fimple ideas, or complex ideas made up o Locke fimple ones Co'mpLicaTE. adj. [from the verb. Compounded of a multiplicity of parts ‘What pleafure would felicitate his fpirit, if h could grafp all in a furvey, as a painter runs ove a complicate piece wrought by Titian or Raphael Watts on the Mind Co'MPLICATENESS., n. /. [from complicate.] The ftate of being complicated intricacy; perplexity Ther is great variety of intelligibles in th world, fo much objected to our fenfes an ever feveral object is full of fubdivided multiplicity an Hale's Origin of Mankind complicatenefs ComPLICA TION. 7./ [from complicate. 1. The aé& of ‘involving one thing in an other 2. The ftate of being involved one in an other All our grievances are either of body or of mind or in complications of both L Eftrange It was not to compliment a fociety, fo much abov flattery, and the regardlefs air of common applaufes Glanwille Monarchs fhould their inward foul difguife Diffemble and command, be falfe and wife By ignominious arts, for fervile ends Should compliment their foes, and fhun their friends Prior The watchman gave fo very great a thump a my door, that I awaked, and heard myfelf compli mented with the ufual falutation 7o Co'MPLIMENT Tatler vw. z. 'To ufe ceremo nious or adulatory language 1 make the interlocutors upon occafion compli Boyle ment with one another She compliments Menelaus very handfomely, an fays he wanted no accomplifhment either of min Pope or body CoMPLIME'NTAL. adj. [from compliment. Expreflive of refpet or civility ; imply ing compliments 1 com to fpeak with Paris from the princ Troilus: I will make a complimental affault upo him Shakefpeare's Troilus and Creffida Languages, for the moft part, in terms of art an erudition, retain their original poverty, and rathe grow rich and abundant in complimental phrafes and {uch frath Watton This falfehood of Ulyfles is i nfil'ely mfi _ and officious ComMPLIME NTALLY. adv. [from m:plz‘ mental.] In the nature of a compij ment; civilly ; with artfal or falfe ; vility This fpeech has been condemn fo Euftathifs judges it fpoken a‘ttfulldy ::zmflf,:',}f tally Broche CoMPLIME NTER. 7 /. [from complz'mm, One given to compliments ; a flatterer Cé'mrLINE, n.). [compline, Fr. complosi e, low Lat.] 'The laft a& of worfhi at night, by which the fervice of the da is completed At morn and eve, befides their anthems fiyeet Their peny mafles, and theic-complines meet Hubberd's Ty If a man were but of a day's life, it is well i he lafts till eve fong, and then fays his complin an hour before the time Taylor's Holy Living, 7o CompLO RE. @. 2. [comploro, Lat.] T make lamentation together COMPLO'T #. /. [Fr. from completun for complexum low Latin Menage. confederacy in fome fecret crime; plot; a confpiracy I cannot, my life, my brother, like but wel The purpofe of the complot which ye tell Hubberd's Tale I know their complot is to have my life Shakefpeare's Henry VI 7o Comrro'r. @. a. [from the noun, To form a plot; to confpire; to joi in any fecret defign, generally crimi nal Nor ever by advifed purpofe mee To plot, contrive, or complot any ill Shakefpeare's Rickard 1T A few lines after, we find them complatting to gether, and contriving a new fcene of miferies t Pope the Trojans CoMPLO'TTER. 7. /. [from complot.] " confpirator ; one joined in a plot Jecafta too, no longer now my fifter Is found complotter in the horrid deed Dryden and Lec's Ocdips 7o COMPLY'. @. n. [Skinner derives i from the French complaire; but probably it comes from complier, to bend to Plier is fill in ufe.] To yield to; t be obfequiou fuit with perfon to to accord with; t It has with before as wel as things The rifing fun complies with our weak fight Firft gilds the clouds, then fhews his globe of light Waller They did fervilely comply with the people in wor {hipping God by fenfible images and reprefentations Tdio(fm The truth of things will not comply with our con Tillotfon ceits, and bend itfelf to our intereft Remember I am fhe who fav'd your life Your loving, lawful, and complying wife. Dryden He made his wifh with his eftate comply Joyful to live, yet not afraid to die. riore CoMPO'NENT. adj. [componens, Lat.] Tha which conftitutes 2 compound body The bignefs of the component parts of natural bo dies may be conjetured by their colours Neavton's Opticks T2 COMPO'RT. @.n. 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