complemental
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From complement + -al.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɛntəl
Adjective[edit]
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[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], signature [E4], 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[entine] 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.
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “complemental”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.