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[Ger. komplement, kompli ment; Fr. complément; Prov. complement; Sp., Port., & Ital. complemento; Lat. complementum, from compleo =to fill full, to fill up.] IMG:content-0387.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Geom.: Any magnitude which, with another one, makes up a given magnitude. (1) The complement of an arc : The arc by which it falls short of a quadrant. (2) The complement of an angle: The angle by which it is le than a right angle. (3) The complements of the parallelograms above the diameter of a parallelogram : The two parallelograms which touch the diagonal only at A a single point and are adjacent to the other two through which the diameter runs. In the fig. A Hand H IMG:content-0388.png:[blocks in formation] station, whom one approaches; condescension is ciency. due from all superiors to such are dependent Synon.) com-plāiş-ant-ly, adv . [Eng. complaisant ; -ly.] In a complaisant manner; with complais- ance, courtesy, or civility. "In plenty starving, tantalis'd in state, And complaisantly help'd to all I hate." proposes to complement the above work."Academy, Oct. 1, 1881. 2. To compliment (q. v.). "And he that call'd Arsinoe (H)eras ion Juno's violet. kept all the letters of the name right, and complemented the lady ingeniously."-Bp. Taylor: Rule of Conscience, bk. iii., ch. ii. *B. In trans.: To pa compliments. "[When ye come to church] ye must not stand looking about, and complementing with one another: nor suffer so much as your thoughts to be running after your worldly affairs." Bp. Beveridge , vol. ii., Ser. 118. IMG:content-0389.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Complementary; supplying or filling up a defi- ciency, acting as a complement; completing. 2. Accomplished. "Would I expre e a complement all youth." Randolph: Muses Looking -Gla (1643). *3. The same as COMPLIMENTARY (q. v.). "With her was complemental flattery With silver tongue." IMG:content-0390.png:[ocr errors] IMG:content-0391.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0392.png:[blocks in formation] that belong to it. A man may have an entire house to himself, and yet not have one complete apart- ment." (Blair: Lect. on Rhetoric and Belles- Lettres (1817), vol. i., p. 230.) Crabb thus discriminates between complete, perfect, and finished : "That is complete which has no deficiency: that is perfect which has positive excellence; and that is finished which has no omis- sion in it." (Crabb: Eng. Synon.) com-plete, *com-pleat', v. t. [In Fr. com- pléter .] [COMPLETE, a.] 1. To bring to a state of perfection, to perfect, to fulfill, to accomplish; to carry out to the complete end. IMG:content-0393.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small] com-plēt-or-ý, a . & s. [Eng. complet(e); -ory, as if from Lat. comp let or i us , from comp let us =com- plete.] A. As adj .: Completive, completing, perfecting; serving to complete, perfect, or accomplish. divers nous namely, as completory of ancient "His crucifixion we may contemplate, as qualified with pre significations and predictions." - Barrow: Serm., ii. IMG:content-0394.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0395.png:[blocks in formation] complexion (2) The Xanthous, or Yellow-haired type. The hair, nominally yellow, may also be light brown, auburn, or red. The skin is fair, the eyes blue or gray. The majority of the Teutonic race, including the English, are of this type. It may spring up any where among the Black-haired races of men, and does so when these are subjected for generations to cold. Thus there are fair-haired, blue-eyed Jews, Afghans, . (3) The Leucous or Albino, with the absence of coloring matter in the hair and eyes, the former being fleecy white, the latter, owing to great vascularity of the cornea, pink. It exists sporadically in hot countries, among the dark-haired races of mankind, and is a morbid rather than a healthy state of the bodily frame. A strictly analogous change is seen in several of the lower animals. [ALBINO.]