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compleat
compleat
English
Verb
compleat (third-person singular simple present compleats, present participle compleating, simple past and past participle compleated)
- Archaic spelling of complete.
- 1776, the Declaration of Independence, written largely by Thomas Jefferson:
- He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy unworthy the head of a civilized nation...
- 1776, the Declaration of Independence, written largely by Thomas Jefferson:
Adjective
compleat (not comparable)
- Archaic spelling of complete.
- Stephen Schiff:
- Here was the compleat modern misfit: the very air appeared to poison him; his every step looked treacherous and hard won […] beneath an anarchy as much physiological as psychological.
- Stephen Schiff: