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A folding or fold; a plait. Richardson.

The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.

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.

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

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.

The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, the duplication of cartilage cells. Carpenter. Duplication of the cube (Math.), the operation of finding a cube having a volume which is double that of a given cube.

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

ated. Three principal causes of firmness are. the grossness, the quiet contact, and the implication of component parts. Boyle.

Want of application, attention, or diligence; negligence; indolence.

A wrong application. Sir T. Browne.

Wrong explication.

s of multiplying, or of increasing in number; the state of being multiplied; as, the multiplication of the human species by natural generation. The increase and multiplication of the world. Thackeray.

The act of making fourfold; a taking four times the simple sum or amount.

The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.

The act of doubling, or the state of being doubled.

Return or repercussion, as of sound; echo. To hear the replication of your sounds. Shak.

The act of supplicating; humble and earnest prayer, as in worship.

The act of tripling, or making threefold, or adding three together. Glanvill.

Considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; exiting in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult.