Compliment

kom′pli-ment, n. an expre ion of regard or praise: delicate flattery: an expre ion of formal respect or civility: a present.— v.t. Compliment′ , to pay a compliment to: to expre respect for: to praise: to flatter: to congratulate: to make a present.— v.i. to make compliments.— adjs. Compliment′al , expre ing or implying compliment; Compliment′ary , conveying, or expre ive of, civility or praise: using compliments.— n. Compliment′er , one who pays compliments.— Compliments of the season , compliments appropriate to special times, as Christmas and birthdays; Left-handed compliment , a saying intended to seem a compliment, but in reality the reverse; Pay , or Present , one's compliments , to give one's respects or greeting. [Fr. compliment —L. complementum . See Comply .]