a. and sb. Obs. [f. L. type *complicātīv-us, f. complicāre: see COMPLICATE v. and -IVE.]
A. adj. Tending or adapted to complicate.
B. sb. A complicative force, principle, etc.
1654. Fuller, 2 Serm., 11. If one of them faile, yet the Structure may still stand … by vertue of the Complicative which it receiveth from such Foundations which still stand secure.
