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complect
English
Etymology
From Latin complect? (“to entwine, encircle, compass, infold”), from com- (“together”) and plectere (“to weave, braid”). See complex.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: com?plect
Verb
complect (third-person singular simple present complects, present participle complecting, simple past and past participle complected)
- (archaic, transitive) To join by weaving.
- (archaic, transitive) To embrace.
Synonyms
- (archaic: to join by weaving): interweave, entwine, interconnect, interlink
Derived terms
- complected (woven together, interwoven)
See also
- intercommunicate
- join
- tangle
Further reading
- complect in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Romanian
Adverb
complect
- Nonstandard form of complet.
Adjective
complect m or n (feminine singular complect?, masculine plural complec?i, feminine and neuter plural complecte)
- Nonstandard form of complet.
Declension
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complexion
English
Alternative forms
- complection (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English complexion (“temperament”), from Old French complexion (French complexion), from Latin complexi? (“a combination, connection, period”), from complecti, past participle complexus (“to entwine, encompass”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /k?m?pl?k??n/
- Rhymes: -?k??n
- Hyphenation: com?plex?ion
Noun
complexion (plural complexions)
- (obsolete, medicine) The combination of humours making up one's physiological "temperament", being either hot or cold, and moist or dry.
- “Indeed, sir,” answered the lady, with some warmth, “I cannot think there is anything easier than to cheat an old woman with a profession of love, when her complexion is amorous; and, though she is my aunt, I must say there never was a more liquorish one than her ladyship. […]
- The quality, colour, or appearance of the skin on the face.
- 1596-99?, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, act II, scene i:
- Prince of Morocco: Mislike me not for my complexion, / The shadow’d livery of the burnish’d sun, / To whom I am a neighbour, and near bred. [...]
- This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. In complexion fair, and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.
- 1596-99?, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, act II, scene i:
- (figuratively) The outward appearance of something.
- Outlook, attitude, or point of view.
- 1844, E. A. Poe, Marginalia
- But the purely marginal jottings, done with no eye to the Memorandum Book, have a distinct complexion, and not only a distinct purpose, but none at all; this it is which imparts to them a value.
- 1844, E. A. Poe, Marginalia
- (loanword, especially in scientific works translated from German) An arrangement.
- 1909, Ludwig Boltzmann, translated by Kim Sharp and Franz Matschinsky
- Second there is the level at which the energy or velocity components of each molecule are specified. He calls this a Komplexion, which we translate literally as complexion.
- 1909, Ludwig Boltzmann, translated by Kim Sharp and Franz Matschinsky
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:countenance
Related terms
- complect
- complex
- complexional
Translations
Verb
complexion (third-person singular simple present complexions, present participle complexioning, simple past and past participle complexioned)
- (transitive) To give a colour to.
- 2003, Leland Krauth, Mark Twain & Company: Six Literary Relations (page 118)
- From the pale refinement of her genteel heroine to the sallow complexioning of poor white trash, Stowe colors her narrative with the hues of the body.
- 2003, Leland Krauth, Mark Twain & Company: Six Literary Relations (page 118)
Further reading
- complexion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- complexion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Old French
Etymology
First known attestation circa 1120, borrowed from Latin complexi?.
Noun
complexion f (oblique plural complexions, nominative singular complexion, nominative plural complexions)
- (medicine) complexion (combination of humours making up one's physiological "temperament")
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (complession, supplement)
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