[f. L. complicāt-us COMPLICATE: see -ACY 3.] The quality of being complicated or complex.
18[?]. Mitford is cited by Webster (1828).
1827. Carlyle, Misc. (1857), I. 56. With such clearness and composure does he mould the complicacy of his subject.
1855. Bain, Senses & Int., III. ii. (1864), 499. Wherever there is much variety or complicacy in the impressions of outward things.
2. A complicated structure, matter or condition.
1849. Fraser’s Mag., XL. 677. A promising arrangement, one of the first to suggest itself in such a complicacy.
1865. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., VI. XX. iii. 47. Difficulties, complicacies, very many.
1888. R. Dowling, Miracle Gold, I. vi. 112. The interminable complicacies of the clock.
