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complemental en · ADJ

Etymology

From complement + -al. Piecewise doublet of complimental.

Meanings

  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. 1642, [Thomas Browne], “[The First Part]”, in Religio Medici, London: […] Andrew Crooke, →OCLC, page 34:
  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. c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], signature [E4], recto:
    • I have no skill in ceremonious letters which have no other ſubſtance, but a faire contexture of complementall phraſes and curteous wordes. 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “A consideration vpon Cicero”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 126:
    • 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. 1624, Henry Wotton, “The Preface”, in The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC:

Deriveds

uncomplemental · complemental air · complemental male · complemental angle · complementalness · complementally