complex (kompleks)

[= Sp. Pg. complexo = It. comple o, IMG:content-0928.png:[blocks in formation] In the Southern States the tenure of land and the local laws, with slavery, give the social system not a democratic but an aristocratic complexion . Emerson , Misc., p. 302. 4. The state of being complex; complexity; involution; combination; also, a complex. [Obsolete or rare.] God's mercy goes along in complexion and conjunction with his judgments. Jer . Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 832. This is the great and entire complexion of a christian's faith. Jer . Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), II. 305. Though the terms of propositions may be complex, yet, where the composition of the. argument is... plain, the complexion does not belong to the syllogistic form Watts , Logic, III. ii. § 2. of it.