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English
Etymology
From complement + -al.
Pronunciation
Adjective
complemental (not comparable)
- Of the nature of a complement; completing.
- Complementary.
- (obsolete) Additional; supplemental, accessory; ancillary.
1642, Tho[mas] Browne, “The First Part”, in Religio Medici. , 4th edition, London: E. Cotes for Andrew Crook , published 1656, →OCLC, page 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.
- (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 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. (First Quarto), London: G Eld for R Bonian and H Walley, , published 1609, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], signature , recto:I vvill make a complementall aſſault vpon him for my buſineſſe ſeeth's.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 39, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book I, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC: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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