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Adjective
complementall
- Obsolete spelling of complimental.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, “A consideration vpon Cicero”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book I, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC, page 126:I have no skill in ceremonious letters which have no other ſubſtance, but a faire contexture of complementall phraſes and curteous wordes.
1624, Henry Wotton, “The Preface”, in The Elements of Architecture, , London: Iohn Bill, →OCLC: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.