complemental

English

Etymology

From complement +‎ -al. Piecewise doublet of complimental.

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɛntəl

Adjective

complemental (not comparable)

Of the nature of a complement; completing.
Complementary.
(obsolete) Additional; supplemental, accessory; ancillary.
- 1642, [Thomas Browne], “[The First Part]”, in Religio Medici, London: […] Andrew Crooke, →OCLC, page 34:
  [I]t is an errour worſe than hereſie, to adore the complementall and circumſtantiall piece of felicity, and undervalue thoſe perfections and eſſential points of happineſſe, 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) Alternative form of complimental (“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, “A consideration vpon Cicero”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] 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.

Derived terms

References

John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “complemental”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.