complemental

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20
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27
Letters
12

Definition of complemental

6 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Of the nature of a complement; completing.
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)Of the nature of a complement; completing.
  2. (not-comparable)Complementary.
  3. (not-comparable, obsolete)Additional; supplemental, accessory; ancillary.
    “[I]t is an errour worſe than hereſie, to adore the complementall and circumſtantiall piece of felicity, and undervalue thoſe perfections and eſſential points of happineſſe, wherein we reſemble our Maker.”
  4. (not-comparable, obsolete)Of the nature of a ceremony that is not essential but accessory; ceremonial; ceremonious; formal.
  5. (not-comparable, obsolete)Of persons: accomplished; talented; experienced.
  6. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable, obsolete)Alternative form of complimental (“complimentary”).
    “I vvill make a complementall aſſault vpon him for my buſineſſe ſeeth's.”
    “I have no skill in ceremonious letters which have no other ſubſtance, but a faire contexture of complementall phraſes and curteous wordes.”
    “For if the Saxon, (our mother tongue) did complaine; as iuſtly (I doubt) in this point may the Daughter: Languages, for the moſt part in tearmes of Art and Erudition, retayning their originall pouertie, and rather growing rich and abundant, in complementall phraſes and ſuch froth.”

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Etymology

From complement + -al. Piecewise doublet of complimental.

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