Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: COM-PLETE' – COM-PLI'ANT
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COM-PLETE', v.t.
- To finish; to end; to perfect; as, to complete a bridge, or an edifice; to complete an education.
- To fill; to accomplish; as, to complete hopes or desires.
- To fulfill; to accomplish; to perform; as, the prophecy of Daniel is completed.
COM-PLET'ED, pp.
Finished; ended; perfected; fulfilled; accomplished.
COM-PLETE'LY, adv.
Fully; perfectly; entirely. – Swift.
COM-PLETE'MENT, n.
The act of completing; a finishing. – Dryden.
COM-PLETE'NESS, n.
The state of being complete; perfection. – Watts.
COM-PLET'ING, ppr.
Finishing; perfecting; accomplishing.
COM-PLE'TION, n.
- Fulfillment; accomplishment. There was a full entire harmony and consent in the divine predictions, receiving their completion in Christ. – South.
- Act of completing; state of being complete; utmost extent; perfect state; as, the gentleman went to the university for the completion of his education or studies. The completion of a bad character is to hate a good man. – Anon.
COM-PLE'TIVE, a.
Filling; making complete. – Harris.
COM-PLE'TO-RY, a.
Fulfilling; accomplishing. – Barrow.
COM-PLE'TO-RY, n.
The evening service; the complin of the Romish church. – Hooper.
COM'PLEX, or COM-PLEX'ED, a. [L. complexus, complex, embracing, from complector, to embrace; con and plecto, to weave, or twist; Gr. πλεω; L. plico; W. plygu; Arm. plega; Fr. plier; It. piegare; Sp. plegar; D.plooijen, to fold, bend, or double.]
- Composed of two or more parts or things; composite; not simple; including two or more particulars connected; as, a complex being; a complex idea; a complex term. Ideas made up of several simple ones, I call complex; such as beauty, gratitude, a man, the universe. – Locke.
- Involved; difficult; as, a complex subject.
COM'PLEX, n.
Assemblage; collection; complication. [Little used.] This parable of the wedding supper comprehends in it the whole complex of all the blessings and privileges of the Gospel. – South.
COM-PLEX'ED-NESS, n.
Complication; involution of parts in one integral; compound state; as, the complexedness of moral ideas. – Locke.
COM-PLEX'ION, n. [complex'yon.]
- Involution; a complex state. [Little used.] – Watts.
- The color of the skin, particularly of the face; the color of the external parts of a body or thing; as, a fair complexion; a dark complexion; the complexion of the sky.
- The temperament, habitude, or natural disposition of the body; the peculiar cast of the constitution, which gives it a particular physical character; a medical term, but used to denote character, or description; as, men of this or that complexion. 'Tis ill, though different your complexions are, / The family of heaven for men should war. – Dryden.
COM-PLEX'ION-AL, a.
Depending on or pertaining to complexion; as, complexional efflorescences; complexional prejudices. – Brown. Fiddes.
COM-PLEX'ION-AL-LY, adv.
By complexion. – Brown.
Pertaining to the complexion, or to the care of it. – Taylor.
COM-PLEX'ION-ED, a.
Having a certain temperament or state. – Addison.
COM-PLEX'I-TY, n.
The state of being complex; complexness. – Burke.
COM'PLEX-LY, adv.
In a complex manner; not simply.
COM'PLEX-NESS, n.
The state of being complex or involved. – Smith.
COM-PLEX'URE, n.
The involution or complication of one thing with others.
COM-PLI'A-BLE, a. [See Comply.]
That can bend or yield. – Milton.
COM-PLI'ANCE, n. [See Comply.]
- The act of complying; a yielding, as to a request, wish, desire, demand or proposal; concession; submission. Let the king meet compliance in your looks, / A free and ready yielding to his wishes. – Rowe.
- A disposition to yield to others. He was a man of few words and great compliance. – Clarendon.
- Obedience; followed by with; as, compliance with a command, or precept.
- Performance; execution; as, a compliance with the conditions of a contract.
COM-PLI'ANT, a.
- Yielding, bending; as, the compliant boughs. [See Pliant, which is generally used.] – Milton.
- Yielding to request or desire; civil; obliging.