compleat

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
compleat

▶adjective & verb archaic spelling of complete.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
complete/kəmˈpliːt/

▶adjective

• 1 having all the necessary or appropriate parts; entire.

  ■ (complete with) having as an additional feature.

• 2 having run its full course; finished.

• 3 to the greatest extent or degree; total: a complete surprise.

• 4 (also compleat) chiefly humorous fully competent in an activity; consummate.

▶verb

• 1 finish making or doing.

  ■ Brit. conclude the sale of a property.

• 2 provide with the items necessary to make (something) complete.

  ■ write the required information on (a form).

– derivatives
completeness noun.

– origin ME: from OFr. complet, or L. complet-, complere ‘fill up, finish, fulfil’, from com- (expressing intensive force) + plere ‘fill’.