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The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entaglement; complexity. A complication of diseases. Macaulay. Through and beyond these dark complications of the present, the New England founders looked to the great necessities of future times. Palfrey.…

Folded lengthwise along the midrib, the upper face being within; -- said of leaves or petals in vernation or æstivation.

A doubling together or folding; a duplication. [R.]

Plaited lengthwise and twisted in addition, as the bud of the morning-glory. Gray.

The division of that which is morphologically one organ into two or more, as the division of an organ of a plant into a pair or cluster.

An unfolding, untwisting, or unplaiting. [Obs.] W. Montagu.

Double; twofold. Duplicate proportion or ratio (Math.), the proportion or ratio of squares. Thus, in geometrical proportion, the first term to the third is said to be in a duplicate ratio of the first to the second, or as its square is to the square of the second. Thus, in 2, 4, 8, 16, the ratio of 2 to 8 is a duplicat…

The act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated; a doubling; a folding over; a fold.

Having the quality of duplicating or doubling.

A doubling; a fold, as of a membrane.

Capable of being explicated; that may be explained or accounted for; admitting explanation. It is not explicable upon any grounds. Burke.

Quality of being explicable.

To unfold; to expand; to lay open. [Obs.] "They explicate the leaves." Blackmore.

act of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation. The explication of our Savior's parables. Atterbury.

Serving to unfold or explain; tending to lay open to the understanding; explanatory. Sir W. Hamilton.

One who unfolds or explains; an expounder; an explainer.

Explicative. Barrow.

To infold; to fold together; to interweave. The meeting boughs and implicated leaves. Shelley.

The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated. Three principal causes of firmness are. the grossness, the quiet contact, and the implication of component parts. Boyle.

Tending to implicate.