complemental
English
Etymology
From complement + -al.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛntəl
Adjective
complemental (not comparable)
- Of the nature of a complement; completing.
- Complementary.
- (obsolete) Additional; supplemental, accessory; ancillary.
- 1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, I.18:
- [I]t is an error worse than heresie, to adore these complemental and circumstantial pieces of felicity, and undervalue those perfections and essential points of happiness wherein we resemble our Maker.
- 1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, I.18:
- (obsolete) Of the nature of a ceremony that is not essential but accessory; ceremonial; ceremonious; formal.
- (obsolete) Of persons: accomplished; talented; experienced.
- (obsolete) Complimentary.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:
- I will make a complemental assault upon him
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 39, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- I have no skill in ceremonious letters, which have no other substance, but a faire contexture of complemental phrases and curteous words.
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Derived terms
- complemental angle
- complemental air
- complemental male
References
- “complemental”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.
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