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are cooled by their pafiage over the. Red Sea ; the north- 
ern winds from Egypt iofe much of their heat on the chain 
of mountains that is extended between the countries; 
the winds from the l'outh and the weft are fea winds. 
Thus the only quarter from which they can derive ex- 
ceftive heat is from the weft, as the air on this title mult 
pafs over tracts of heated lands.” For a ftmilar reafon it 
is that negroes are not found either in Afia or South 
America under the equator. The iituations of tnele 
countries expofe them to lea breezes and cooling winds 
from the continent. Zimmerman confirms this hypothecs 
by obferving, that the mountaineers of warm climates, as 
in Barbary and Ceylon, are much fairer than the inhabi¬ 
tants of tl. . /alleys'; that the Saracens and Moors, who 
conquered the north-ealt part of Africa in 1700, from 
being brown, are become like the negroes near the equa¬ 
tor; that the Portuguefe. who fettled at Senegal in 1400, 
became blacks!; and Tudela the'jew afferts, that his 
countrymen in Abyftinia acquiied the dark complexion 
of the original natives. 
Upon the whole, complexion and figure may be ftyled 
habits of the body. Like other habits, they are created, 
not by great and fudden imprellions, but by continual 
and almoft imperceptible touches. Of habits both of 
mind and body, nations are fufceptible as well as indivi¬ 
duals. They are tranfmitted to offspring, and augmented 
by inheritance. Long in growing to maturity, national 
features, like national mariners, become fixed only after 
a fucceffion of ages. They become, however, fixed at 
laft; and if we can afcertain any eft'eft produced by a gi¬ 
ven ltate of weather or of climate, it requires only repe¬ 
tition during a fufficieut length of time to augment and 
imprefs it with a permanent character. The l’anguine 
countenance will, for this reafon, be perpetual in the 
iiigheft latitudes of the temperate’zone ; and we (hall for 
ever find the fwarthy, the olive, the tawny, and tfie black, 
as we deicend to tlie fbuth. This piiancy of nature is 
favourable to the unions of the moft diftant nations, and 
facilitates the acquiiition and the extenlion of fcience, 
which would otherwife be confined to few objects and to 
a very limited range. It opens the way particularly to 
the knowledge of the globe which we inhabit; a i'ubjedl 
fo important and int/refting to man.' It is verified by 
experience. Mankind are for ever changing ttieir habi¬ 
tations by conquelts or by commerce; and we find them 
in all climates, not only able to endure the change, but 
fo affimilated by time, that we cannot lay with certainty 
whofe ancbltoi was the native of the clime, and whofe the 
intruding foreigner. 
COMi-’LEX'IONAL, adj. Depending on the com¬ 
plexion or temperament of the body.—Men and other 
animals receive different tin&ures from complexional tfflo- 
refcencies, and defeend ftill lower as they partake of the 
fuliginous and denigrating humours. Btown —-Ignorance, 
where it proceeds from early or complexional prejudices, 
will not wholly exclude from favour of God. Fiddes. 
COMPLEX'IONALLY, adv. By complexion.—An 
Indian king fent unto Alexander a fair woman, fed with 
poiions, either by converfe or copulation complcxionally to 
deftroy him. Bron.cn. 
COMPLEXITY, f. The flate of being complex..— 
Some diftinguifhed for their (implicit) - , others for their 
complexity. Burke. 
COMPLEX'LY, adv. In a complex manner; not (imply. 
COMPLEX'NESS, f. The date of being complex. 
COMPLEX'URE, f. The involution or complication 
of one thing with others. 
COMPLPANCE, f. The aft of yielding to any defire 
or demand ; accord ; f’ubmiflion,—I am far from excufing 
that compliance, for plenary confent it was not, to his de- 
itvuftion. King Charles.—-The actions to which the world 
folicits our compliance, are fins, which forfeit eternal ex¬ 
pectations. Rogers. 
Let the king meet compliance in your looks, 
A free and ready yielding to his willies. Rowe, 
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A difpo/ition to yield to others; complaifance.—He was 
a man of few words, and of great compliance ; and ufually 
delivered that as his opinion, which he forefaw would be 
grateful to the king. Clarendon. 
COMPLPANT, adj. Yielding; bending; civil; com- 
plaifant: 
The compliant boughs 
Yielded them. . Milton , 
To COM'PLICATE, <v. a. [complico , Lat.] To entan¬ 
gle one wfith another; to join ; to involve mutually.— 
Though the particular actions of war are complicate in fadt, 
yet they are feparate and diftindt in right. Bacon .— In 
cafe our offence againft God hath been complicated wii.h 
injury to men, we fhould make reftitution. Tillot/on — 
When the difeafe is complicated with other difeafes, one 
muft conlider that which is moft dangerous. Arbuthnot.— 
To unite by involution of parts one in another.-—Com¬ 
motion in the parts may make them apply themfelves one 
to another, or complicate and difpofe them after the man¬ 
ner requilite to make them ftick. Boyle .— To form by 
complication ; to form by the union of feveral parts into 
one integral. — A man, an army, the univerfe, are com¬ 
plicated of various fimple ideas, or complex ideas made up 
of fimple ones. Locke. 
Dreadful was the din 
Of hiding through the hall ! thick fwarming now 
With complicated monfters, head and tail. Milton. 
COM'PLICATE, adj. Compounded of a multiplicity 
of parts.—What pleafure would felicitate his f’pirit, if he 
could grafp all in a lurvey, as a painter runs over a com¬ 
plicate piece wrought by Titian or Raphael. Watts. 
COM'PLICATENESS, f. The ltate of being compli¬ 
cated ; intricacy; perplexity.—There is great variety of 
intelligibles in the world, fo much objected to our fenfes, 
and every leveral obiedt is full of fubdivided multiplicity 
and compile at enejs. Hale. 
COX; PLICA'TIONjy? The adl of involving one thing 
in another. The (fate of being involved one in another. 
— 4 il our grievances are either of body or of mind, or in 
complications of both. L' EJlrange: —The integral confiding 
of many things involved, perplexed, and united.—By ad» 
niitting a complication of ideas, and taking too many things 
at once into one queftion, the mind-is dazzled'and btf- 
w'ildered. Watts. 
COM'PLICE, f. [Fr. from complex, an aflbeiate, low 
Lat.] One who is united with others in an ill defign; an 
aflbeiate; a confederate; an accomplice.—Juftice was af¬ 
terwards done upon the offenders, the principal being- 
hanged and quartered in Southfield 1 ; and divers of his-chief 
complices executed in divers parts of the realm. Hayward, 
To arms, victorious noble father. 
To quell the rebels and their complices. Shakefpeare, 
COMPLI'ER, f. A man of an eafy temper; a man of 
ready compliance.—Snppofe a hundred new employments 
were erefted on purpofe to gratify compilers, an inlupport- 
able difficulty would remain. Swift. 
CQM'PLIMENT, f. [ compliment, Fr.] An aft or ex- 
pieffioH of civility, ufually underftood to include f’ome 
h) pocriiy, and to mean lefs than it declares; this is pro¬ 
perly complement, fomething fuperfluous, or more than 
enough.—Virtue, religion, heaven, and eternal happinefs, 
are not trifles to be given up in.a compliment, or facrificed 
to a jeft. Rogers. 
One whom the mufic of his own vain tongue 
Doth ravifh, like enchanting harmony : 
A man of compliments , whom right and wrong 
Have chofe as umpire of their meeting. Shake fpeaci. 
What honour that, 
But tedious walle of time, to fit and hear 
So many hollow compliments and lyes, 
Gutlandifh flatteries ? Milton, ■ 
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