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compleat
[ kuhm-pleet ]
adjective
- highly skilled and accomplished in all aspects; complete; total:
the compleat actor, at home in comedy and tragedy.
compleat
/ kəmˈpliːt /
adjective
- an archaic spelling of complete, used esp in the titles of handbooks, in imitation of The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton
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Word History and Origins
Origin of compleat1
1875–80; earlier spelling of complete, used phrasally in allusion to The Compleat Angler ( def )
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Example Sentences
Now they begin to observe that there is no state or condition in the World so compleat, but it hath some kind of imperficiency.
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A new, plain, short and compleat French and English Grammar.
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I am to undertake all expense from that time & to compleat the erecting.
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At last his good nature gain'd a compleat ascendence over his anger, and, he join'd heartily in the laugh.
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This song is quoted as very popular in Walton's Compleat Angler, chap.
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