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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Complexion

Com·plex′ion (kŏm·plĕk′shŭn), n. [F. complexion, fr. L. complexio. See Complex, a.] 1. The state of being complex; complexity. [Obs.]

Though the terms of propositions may be complex, yet . . . it is properly called a simple syllogism, since the complexion does not belong to the syllogistic form of it. I. Watts.

2. A combination; a complex. [Archaic]

This paragraph is . . . a complexion of sophisms. Coleridge.

3. The bodily constitution; the temperament; habitude, or natural disposition; character; nature. [Obs.]

If his complexion incline him to melancholy. Milton.

It is the complexion of them all to leave the dam. Shak.

4. The color or hue of the skin, esp. of the face.

Tall was her stature, her complexion dark. Wordsworth.

Between the pale complexion of true love, And the red glow of scorn and proud disdain. Shak.

5. The general appearance or aspect; as, the complexion of the sky; the complexion of the news.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.