complemental

Of the nature of a complement; completing.

Adjective

Of the nature of a complement; completing.
Complementary.
Additional; supplemental, accessory; ancillary.
- [I]t is an errour worſe than hereſie, to adore the complementall and circumſtantiall piece of felicity, and undervalue thoſe perfections and eſſential points of happineſſe, wherein we reſemble our Maker. - 1642, [Thomas...
Of the nature of a ceremony that is not essential but accessory; ceremonial; ceremonious; formal.
Of persons: accomplished; talented; experienced.
Alternative form of complimental (“complimentary”).
- I vvill make a complementall aſſault vpon him for my buſineſſe ſeeth's. - c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for...
- I have no skill in ceremonious letters which have no other ſubſtance, but a faire contexture of complementall phraſes and curteous wordes. - 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “A consideration vpon Cicero”, in John Florio,...
- For if the Saxon, (our mother tongue) did complaine; as iuſtly (I doubt) in this point may the Daughter: Languages, for the moſt part in tearmes of Art and Erudition, retayning their originall pouertie, and rather...

From complement + -al. Piecewise doublet of complimental.