complementall

Obsolete spelling of complimental.

Adjective

  1. Obsolete spelling of complimental.
    • 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...