complication

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

COMPLICATION, noun 1. The act of interweaving, or involving two or more things or parts; the state of being interwoven, involved or intimately blended. The notions of a confused knowledge are always full of perplexity and complications. 2. The integral consisting of many things involved or interwoven, or mutually united. By admitting a complication of ideas--the mind is bewildered.
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