The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ramify \Ram"i*fy\ (r[a^]m"[i^]*f[imac]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ramified (-f[imac]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Ramifying.] [F. ramifier, LL. ramificare, fr. L. ramus a branch + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See -fy.] To divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify an art, subject, scheme.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: ramify)
WordNet
v. have or develop complicating consequences; "These actions will ramify" [syn: complexify]
grow and send out branches or branch-like structures; "these plants ramify early and get to be very large" [syn: branch]
divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks" [syn: branch, fork, furcate, separate]
[also: ramified]
See ramify
Usage examples of "ramified".
The flow of pioneers, so vital in all its aspects, and which has yielded such inestimable benefits at the early stages of this widely ramified enterprise, must, however urgent the other tasks already shouldered by an overburdened yet unfailingly protected community, be neither arrested nor slacken.
Complex fans ramified far back inside the milky nitrogen ice, following veins of carbonaceous compounds.
There was more genius in it than in any structure of the kind I have ever seen,--each length being of a special pattern, ramified, reticulated, contorted, as the limbs of the trees had grown.
All seething with detail that ramified as you looked at it, then split again into underworlds of minutia.
The chains of reasoning which had made the reorganization of the world and the building of the ship possible within months, had been too subtle and ramified for animal man to follow.
These centralised at San Francisco and thence ramified and spread north, east, and south, to every quarter of the State.
This year it had ramified into a braid of smaller streams on either side of the vastly swollen main river, and Tharius Don looked down from the pass to see the buttes glittering among tinsel ribbons of water in the late sun.
The old Nevadan custom of gambling was still observed, but had been elaborated, ramified and extended.
The human neocortex is the most densely ramified complexified structure in the known universe.
In the part of a federal equal-opportunity form where Randy would simply check a box labeled CAUCASIAN, Kia would have to attach multiple sheets on which her family tree would be ramified backwards through time ten or twelve generations until reaching ancestors who could actually be pegged to one specific ethnic group without glossing anything over, and those ethnic groups would be intimidatingly hip ones--not Swedes, let's say, but Lapps, and not Chinese but Hakka, and not Spanish but Basque.
And such was the strength of their ramified will that while she lived, while she retained any vestige of herself, moksha, turiya, and samadhi were entirely barred from the Upper Land.