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compleat

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com·pleat  (km-plt)
adj.
1. Of or characterized by a highly developed or wide-ranging skill or proficiency: "The compleat speechwriter ... comes to anonymity from Harvard Law" (Israel Shenker).
2. Being an outstanding example of a kind; quintessential: "Here was the compleat modern misfit: the very air appeared to poison him; his every step looked treacherous and hard won" (Stephen Schiff).
[Variant of complete.]
compleat [kəmˈpliːt]
adj
an archaic spelling of complete used in the titles of handbooks, in imitation of The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton


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To compleat such unparalelled Barbarity we were informed that an Execution in the House would shortly take place.
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"And take the COMPLEAT FORTUNE-TELLER to the outhouse," Joan continued, rapidly wiping her hands, and donning the garments.
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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 & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy of the Head of a civilized nation.
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