compleat

present singular third person compleats · participle present compleating · participle past compleated · past compleated

1. LateModernarchaicArchaic spelling of complete.

   This I was forc'd to before I had executed half my Deſign, for the Machinery was entirely wanting to compleat it.

   1712 May, [Alexander Pope], “The Rape of the Locke. An Heroi-comical Poem.”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, canto

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   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

comparative more compleat · superlative most compleat

1. LateModernarchaicArchaic spelling of complete.

   in that Family he might have compleat Oeconomical Power

   1680, Robert Filmer, Patriarcha

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   Mr Salteena had put on a compleat evening suit as he thought it was the correct idea

   1919, Daisy Ashford, “Chapter 3”, in The Young Visiters