Obs. rare. [app. f. L. complicāre; cf. apply, repr. L. applicāre, etc.]
1. trans. To compose by intertexture.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, XXIV. 44. All his nerves being naturally complied Of eminent strength.
2. To enfold, embrace.
1648. Herrick, Hesper., Appar. of Mistr., 40. Ovid, by Whom faire Corinna sits, and doth comply with yvorie wrists his laureat head. Ibid., Oberon’s Pal., 98. A rug of carded wooll … seem’d to Comply, Cloud-like, the daintie Deitie.
