Word Meanings - COMPLICE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An accomplice. To quell the rebels and their complices. Shak. (more info) closely connected with one, confederate. See Complicate, and cf.

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• CONNECTOR
  One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
• ACCOMPLICESHIP
  The state of being an accomplice. Sir H. Taylor.
• CONNECTIVELY
  In connjunction; jointly.
• CONNECTEDLY
  In a connected manner.
• CONNECTIVE
  Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection. Connection tissue See Conjunctive tissue, under Conjunctive.
• QUELL
  Etym: 1. To die. Yet he did quake and quaver, like to quell. Spenser. 2. To be subdued or abated; to yield; to abate. Winter's wrath begins to quell. Spenser.
• CONFEDERATE
  Of or pertaining to the government of the eleven Southern States of the United States which attempted to establish an independent nation styled the Confederate States of America; as, the Confederate congress; Confederate money. (more info) join
• ACCOMPLICE
  An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory. "And thou, the cursed accomplice of his treason." Johnson. Note: It is followed by with or of before a person and by in (or sometimes of)
• COMPLICATENESS
  Complexity. Sir M. Hale.
• QUELLIO
  A ruff for the neck. B. Jonson.
• COMPLICATE
  Folded together, or upon itself, with the fold running lengthwise. (more info) 1. Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved. How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man! Young.
• CONNECT
  Etym: 1. To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation between. He fills, he bounds, connect and equals all. Pope. A man must the connection of each
• CLOSELY
  1. In a close manner. 2. Secretly; privately. That nought she did but wayle, and often steepe Her dainty couch with tears which closely she did weepe. Spenser.
• CONFEDERATER
  A confederate.
• COMPLICATELY
  In a complex manner.
• QUELLER
  1. A killer; as, Jack the Giant Queller. Wyclif . 2. One who quells; one who overpowers or subdues.
• CONNECTION
  1. The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; junction; union; alliance; relationship. He denied the possibility of a known connection between cause and effect. Whewell. The eternal and inserable connection between virtue
• THEIR
  The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country. Note: The possessive takes the form theirs (theirs is best cultivated. Nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham.
• DISCONNECT
  To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
• DELTA CONNECTION
  One of the usual forms or methods for connecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.
• MANQUELLER
  A killer of men; a manslayer. Carew.
• OVERQUELL
  To quell or subdue completely. Bp. Hall.
• INCONNECTION
  Disconnection.
• T CONNECTION
  The connection of two coils diagrammatically as a letter T, chiefly used as a connection for passing transformers. When the three free ends are connected to a source of three-phase current, two-phase current may be derived from the secondary