Usage examples (18)

• A recent vogue for the extensive misuse, usually tautological misuse, of the word "complexus" -- an excellent word if used rarely and for definite purposes.
• Cornelium Tacitum arta familiaritate complexus est. '
• Attalum comiter accepit, pristinamque uxorem complexus, magno honore apud se habuit.
• In the Preface, which, as its whole language implies, was written last, Saxo speaks of Waldemar II having "encompassed (` complexus ') the ebbing and flowing waves of Elbe."