complain ablet (komplanabl)

[ Though both [profanene and superstition] be blameable, yet superstition is le complain able . Feltham, Resolves, i. 36. complainant (kom-plā'nant), n. [ com plaignant , ppr. of complaindre : see complain , v., and- ant1 .] 1. One who makes a complaint; a complainer. Congreve and this author are the most eager complain ants . Jeremy Collier , Def. of Short View. In one particular case, the complaint of the King, the old a umption that complainants are presumably in the right was kept long alive among us. Maine, Early Hist. of Institutions, p. 272. Hence-2. One who suffers from ill health. [Rare.] Taxed as she was to such an extent that she had no energy left for exercise, she is, now that she has finished her education, a constant complainant . H. Spencer, Education, p. 262. 3. In law, one who prosecutes by complaint, or commences a legal proce against another; a plaintiff; a prosecutor; in particular, the plaintiff in a suit in equity, or one on whose complaint a criminal prosecution is asked for. complainer (kom-planer), n. One who complains, laments, or bewails; a faultfinder; a murmurer; a grumbler. Speechle complainer , I will learn thy thought. IMG:content-0918.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0919.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0920.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0921.png:[blocks in formation] LL. plan are , make plane or plain: see planel , plain1.] To make level; reduce to an even sur- face. Derham . [Rare.] complanate (kom plā-nāt), a. [L. complain the figure, the angle DCB is the Arithmetical complement. See arithmetical .-Com- plement of an arc or angle, in geom . , the remainder after subtracting a given are from a quadrant (90°), or a given angle from a right angle. Thus, nat us , pp.: see the verb.] 1. Flattened; made level, or with a smooth surface. [Rare.] -2. In bot . , lying in one plane: applied to leaves, especially of mo es.-3. In entom . , appearing as if flattened by pre ure: applied to plane surfaces continuous with higher and convex or irregular parts: as, a complanate margin or disk in a convex pronotum. complanation (kom-pla-na's hon), n. [As com- planate + -ion.] In math ., the proce of find- ing a plane area equal to a given portion of a curved surface. com plea set (kom-plēz'), v . t . [ com- + please , after OF. F. complaire , etc., L.complacere : see complacent .] To a ent to; acquiesce in. Syl- vester, tr. of Du Bartas. compleatt, a. and v. complete. complectt, v. t. [ complect i , conplecti , act. complect ere, entwine around: see complex .] To embrace. IMG:content-0922.png:[blocks in formation] complected2 (kom-plek'ted), a . [Irreg. com- plexion ( complect - ion ) + -ed2.] Of a certain complexion; complexioned: usually in compo- and southern U. S.] Of such matiere made he many layes, Songes, compleyntes , roundelets, virelayes. You remember a man sat right before you at church? dark- complected , straight as a ramrod, tall, long black hair, plain clothes? W. M. Baker , New Timothy, p. 99. complectiont, n. An obsolete spelling of com- plexion . complement (kom'ple-ment), n. [= D. Dan. Sw. komplement = G. complement = OF. com- pliement , compliment , later complement , F. com- plément = Pr. complement = Sp. Pg. It. comple- mento , complement, complementum , that which fills up or completes, complere , conplere , fill up, complete: see complete , a. and v. Cf. compliment. 1. Full quantity or number; full amount; complete allowance: as, the company had its complement of men; the ship had its com- plement of stores. Where the soul hath the full measure and complement of happine is truly Heaven. 2. Perfect state; fullne ; completene . Spe- cifically, in her ., the condition of being full: used of the moon. The full moon, represented with human features in the disk and with surrounding rays, is blazoned as the moon in her complement . 3. What is needed to complete or fill up some quantity or thing; that which anything lacks of completene or fullne : as, the complement of an angle (which see, below). Our custom is both to place it [the Lord's Prayer) in the front of our prayers as a guide, and to add it in the end of some principal limbs or parts, as a complement which fully perfect eth whatsoever may be defective in the rest. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. § 35. 4. In music , the interval formed by the higher note and the note an octave above the lower ment of a third is a sixth, formed by the higher note of the third and the note an octave above the lower note of the third. The complement of a fifth is a fourth, of a fourth a fifth, etc. The complements of major and augmented intervals are respectively minor and diminished intervals, 5. That which is added, not as nece ary, but as ornamental; an acce ory; an appendage. Garnish'd and deck'd in modest complement . Shak., Hen. V., ii. 2. Art must be a complement to nature, strictly subsidiary. Emerson, Art. 6t. Compliment: a word of the same ultimate origin and formerly of the same spelling. See compliment. Which figure beyng, as his very origin all name [the Gor- gio us Complement ] purport eth, the most bewtifull and gorgio us of all others, it asketh in reason to be reserued for a last complement , and desciphred by the arte of a Ladies penne. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 207. 7t. An accomplishment. doe best accomplish her. What ornaments doe best adorn her; what complements R. Bra thwaite, Eng. Gentlewoman. IMG:content-0923.png:[blocks in formation] Complement of a parallelogram. If, through a point in the diagonal, two lines be IMG:content-0924.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0925.png:[blocks in formation] Quoted in Capt . John. Smith's True Travels, I. 195. Complemental flattery with silver tongue. J. Beaumont, Psyche, viii. 192. 5t. Accomplished. Would I expre a complemental youth, That thinks himself a spruce and expert courtier, Bending his supple hammes, ki ing his hands. complete (kom-plēt'), a. [ compleet = D. kompleet = G. complet = Dan. komplet = Sw. complett , complet , F. complet = Sp. Pg. It. completo , full, complete, comp let us , pp. of complere, conplere (> It. compire , complete, fill, complire , suit, compliment (see compliment ), = Sp. cumplir = Pg . cumprir = OF.complir , con- plir , fulfil), fill up, fill full, fulfil, complete, plere , fill, akin to E. full : see fulll and plenty , and cf. deplete , replete . Cf. also complement, compliment.] 1. Having no defi- ciency; wanting no part or element; perfect; whole; entire; full: as, in complete armor. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power. Col. ii. 10. A you sand complete courses of the sun. Shak., T. and C., iv. 1. Now the end proposed by God, in causing the Scripture to be written, is to afford us a complete rule and measure of whatever is to be believed or done by us. IMG:content-0926.png:[ocr errors] IMG:content-0927.png:[blocks in formation] Complete act, branch, cadence. See the nouns. - Complete dyadic, one which cannot be reduced to the sum of le than three dyads.- Complete flower, in bot., a flower furnished with all the organs - that is, with calyx and corolla, as well as stamens and pistil: distinguished from perfect, which requires only the presence of the stamens and pistil. - Complete integral, of a partial differential equation, in math.: (a) A solution containing the full number of arbitrary constants or functions. (b) In the case of a partial differential equation of the first order, a solution containing the full number of arbitrary constants, but no arbitrary function. - Complete metamorphosis, in entom., that metamorphosis in which there is a well marked quiescent pupa state between the larval tera. Some of the older entomologists, following Fabric i us, applied this term to the changes of those insects in which the larva is formed like the imago, a condition observed only in some of the low, wingle forms, as the lice and fleas.-Complete primitive, the same as the com plete integral, except that it is regarded as producing the differential equation, not as derived from it.=Syn. 1. Whole, Entire, Complete, Total, full, utter, absolute, plenary, faultle , unbroken. "Nothing is whole that has any thing taken from it; nothing is entire that is divided; nothing is complete that has not all its parts, and those parts fully develope dei complete refers to the perfet i on, entire, unity; whole, junction; total, to their aggregate. A whole orange; an entire set; a complete facsimile; the total expense.' book of Eng. Tongue, p. 376. Wilt thou be lord of the whole world? Angus, Hand Shak., A. and C., ii. 7. Sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears, Divides one thing entire to many objects. Shak., Rich. II., ii. 2. There is nothing which could not have been done, at least nearly as well, and many things much better, by adhering to the complete instead of to the broken arch. J. Fergu on , Hist. Arch., I. 525. As the total tonnage [of Venetian merchant ve els] is but 26,000, it may be inferred that they are small craft. Howells , Venetian Life, xvi.