v. rare. [f. L. complex-us + -FY.] trans. To make complex or complicated.
1830. W. Taylor, Hist. Surv. Germ. Poetry, III. 140. There is an underplot, which attaches Philip to the heiress of Granson, and which complexifies the incidents.
1851. J. O’Connell, Vestiges Civiliz., 127. But this oversight of the scientific gradation of complexity, to which the utmost perfection of language must conform in precise proportion, was an error of philosophy not of method.
1915. J. Arthur Thomson, The Wonder of Life, 479. In the inanimate world there is a tendency in matter to complexify, for atoms to build up molecules, and molecules larger molecules, and so on.
