rare. [f. L. complex- ppl. stem of complectĕre, or the freq. complexāre, to encompass, embrace; but partly taken in the analytical sense of L. com- together + plect-ĕre, plex- to plait, twine: see prec. In sense 2, perh. directly from COMPLEX a.]
† 1. trans. To join, unite, attach. Obs.
c. 1470. Harding, Chron. xci. iii. Edwyns doughter … to whome Men dyd complex Maydens twelue, to take the christenhede.
2. To combine into a complex whole; to complicate, mix up.
1658. Burton’s Diary (1828), III. 358. The question is complexed of matter-of-fact and matter-of-right.
1868. Browning, Ring & Bk., VIII. 1312. Murdered thus … in disguise Whereby mere murder got complexed with wile.
† 3. To embrace. Obs.
a. 1657. R. Loveday, Lett. (1663), 174. All that plenteous variety which was complext in the general terms of milk and honey. Ibid., 146.
