compleat

[ kuhm-pleet ]

/ kəmˈplit /

adjective

highly skilled and accomplished in all aspects; complete; total: the compleat actor, at home in comedy and tragedy.

Origin of compleat

1875–80; earlier spelling of complete, used phrasally in allusion to The Compleat Angler

Words nearby compleat

complainant, complaint, complaisance, complaisant, complanate, compleat, complect, complected, complection, complement, complemental

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Example sentences from the Web for compleat

It would be idle to pretend business at Lausanne; but a compleat year will elapse before my return.
Private letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2)|Edward Gibbon
How did we wish for our dear Polly, and think that was the only thing we wanted to compleat our happiness!
Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782|Lucinda Lee Orr
Now they begin to observe that there is no state or condition in the World so compleat, but it hath some kind of imperficiency.
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and The Confession of the New-married Couple (1682)|A. Marsh
In Elizabethan times the vogue of travelling to become a "compleat person" was fully established.
English Travellers of the Renaissance|Clare Howard

I have not the least doubt of the final and compleat success of the French Revolution.
The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II)|Moncure Daniel Conway

British Dictionary definitions for compleat

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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单词	compleat
释义	compleat [ kuhm-pleet ] / kəmˈplit / adjective highly skilled and accomplished in all aspects; complete; total: the compleat actor, at home in comedy and tragedy. Origin of compleat 1875–80; earlier spelling of complete, used phrasally in allusion to The Compleat Angler Words nearby compleat complainant, complaint, complaisance, complaisant, complanate, compleat, complect, complected, complection, complement, complemental Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for compleat It would be idle to pretend business at Lausanne; but a compleat year will elapse before my return. Private letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2)\|Edward Gibbon How did we wish for our dear Polly, and think that was the only thing we wanted to compleat our happiness! Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782\|Lucinda Lee Orr Now they begin to observe that there is no state or condition in the World so compleat, but it hath some kind of imperficiency. The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and The Confession of the New-married Couple (1682)\|A. Marsh In Elizabethan times the vogue of travelling to become a "compleat person" was fully established. English Travellers of the Renaissance\|Clare Howard I have not the least doubt of the final and compleat success of the French Revolution. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II)\|Moncure Daniel Conway British Dictionary definitions for compleat compleat / (kəmˈpliːt) / adjective an archaic spelling of complete, used esp in the titles of handbooks, in imitation of The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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