implex

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

IM'PLEX, adjective [Latin implexus. See Implicate.] Infolded; intricate; entangled; complicated. Every poem is simple or implex; it is called simple, when there is no change of fortune in it; implex when the fortune of the chief actor changes from bad to good, or from good to bad.
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