Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COM-PLETE', v.t.

1. To finish; to end; to perfect; as, to complete a bridge, or an edifice; to complete an education.
2. To fill; to accomplish; as, to complete hopes or desires.
3. 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.

1. Fulfillment; accomplishment. There was a full entire harmony and consent in the divine predictions, receiving their completion in Christ. – South.
2. 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.]

1. 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.
2. 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.]

1. Involution; a complex state. [Little used.] – Watts.
2. 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.
3. 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.

COM-PLEX'ION-A-RY, a.

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.]

1. 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.
2. A disposition to yield to others. He was a man of few words and great compliance. – Clarendon.
3. Obedience; followed by with; as, compliance with a command, or precept.
4. Performance; execution; as, a compliance with the conditions of a contract.

COM-PLI'ANT, a.

1. Yielding, bending; as, the compliant boughs. [See Pliant, which is generally used.] – Milton.
2. Yielding to request or desire; civil; obliging.