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The quality of being commonplace; commonness.

Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like in themselves. Addison.

Self-satisfied; contented; kindly; as, a complacent temper; a complacent smile. They look up with a sort of complacent awe . . . to kings. Burke.

Marked by, or causing, complacence. [Obs.] "Complacential love." Baxter.

In a complacent manner.

Of or pertaining to shells; resembling a shell; as, conchyliaceous impressions. Kirwan.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the bindweed and the morning-glory are common examples.

Like coral, or partaking of its qualities.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a corolla; having the form or texture of a corolla.

A tearing in pieces. [Obs.] Bailey.

To rend asunder; to tear to pieces. Sir T. Browne.

The act of rending asunder. Arbuthnot.

To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library are all displaced.

Capable of being displaced.

The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place. Unnecessary displacement of funds. A. Hamilton. The displacement of the sun by parallax. Whewell.

Want of complacency or gratification; envious displeasure; dislike. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

One that displaces.

A beautiful variety of Brussels pillow lace made originally in Belgium and resembling Honiton guipure. It is worked with fine thread in large sprays, usually of the primrose pattern, with much raised work.

To put into place or position; to fix on an emplacement.

A putting in, or assigning to, a definite place; localization; as, the emplacement of a structure.