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Etymology

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From complicate +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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complicately (comparative more complicately, superlative most complicately)

  1. (archaic) In a complex manner.
    • 1790, James Hurdis, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      Who first created the great world, a work / Of deep construction, complicately wrought

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for complicately”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)