† complimentallyadv.
/kɒmplɪˈmɛntəli/ Obsolete.
In a complimental manner; as a matter of form; by way of compliment.
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the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > ceremony or formality > [adverb]
in (full, great) formc1405
solemnedlyc1480
religiously1576
ceremoniously1600
complementally?1617
ceremonially1644
complimentally1679
solemn1743
?1617 W. Alexander Suppl. Sidney's Arcadia iii. sig. *1 Zelmane..not complementally hunting that which she fled.
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1076 How complementally do they salute one the other?
1675 tr. W. Camden Hist. Princess Elizabeth (rev. ed.) iv. 579 To observe his Duty rather complementally, then in truth and reality.]
1679 E. Everard Depositions Popish Plot 14 Which I complimentally was..wont to promise them I would do.
1680 Hon. Hodge & Ralph 22 To which the Pope complimentally answers.
a1691 R. Boyle Wks. (1744) IV Publickly, and but too complimentally, taken notice of.
1697 K. Chetwood Life Virgil in J. Dryden tr. Virgil Wks. sig. **4v Plato..at last Complementally Banishes him [sc. Homer] his Commonwealth.]
1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. xviii. 105 She complimentally proved it.
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