ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
[1775. Ash.]
1792. Burke, Lett. Sir H. Langrishe, Wks. VI. 369. You may leave that deliberation of a parliamentary reform … uncomplicated and unembarrassed with the other question.
1879. Spencer, Data of Ethics, viii. § 51. 139. Observing, in their uncomplicated forms, what are the negative conditions to harmonious social life.
1881. Macm. Mag., XLIII. 359/2. The worship … in its primitive form, and uncomplicated with elements of later mythic growth.
b. spec. in Path.
1835–6. Todd’s Cycl. Anat., I. 456/1. In a simple and uncomplicated case [of necrosis] recovery is nearly certain.
1871. A. Meadows, Man. Midwifery (ed. 2), 418. Thus what was originally simple uncomplicated local inflammation may become a specific contagious disease.
