compleat

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compleat

highly skilled and accomplished in all aspects: The compleat writer is adept in many genres.

Not to be confused with:

complete – finished, ended, concluded; having all parts or elements: a complete set of encyclopedias

com·pleat

(kəm-plēt′)

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.]

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compleat

(kəmˈpliːt)

adj

an archaic spelling of complete, used esp in the titles of handbooks, in imitation of The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton

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com•pleat

(kəmˈplit)

adj.

highly skilled; expert.

[1875–80; earlier sp. of complete, used in allusion to The Compleat Angler (1653), 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.

The COMPLEAT FORTUNE-TELLER was an old thick volume, which lay on a table at her elbow, so worn by pocketing that the margins had reached the edge of the type.

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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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By this friendly aid of Fear, Conscience obtained a compleat victory in the mind of Black George, and, after making him a few compliments on his honesty, forced him to deliver the money to Jones.

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One day, while my husband was busily at work, I sat beside him reading an old cookery book called The Compleat Housewife: or Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion.

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Mean while our Primitive great Sire, to meet His god-like Guest, walks forth, without more train Accompani'd then with his own compleat Perfections, in himself was all his state, More solemn then the tedious pomp that waits On Princes, when thir rich Retinue long Of Horses led, and Grooms besmeard with Gold Dazles the croud, and sets them all agape.

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I found our fortress in a bad state of defence, but we proceeded immediately to repair our flanks, strengthen our gates and posterns, and form double bastions, which we compleated in ten days.

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www.expressandstar.com 1593: Izaak Walton, the "father of angling" - he wrote The Compleat Angler - was born in Stafford.

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1593: Izaak Walton, the "father of angling" - who wrote The Compleat Angler - was born in Stafford.

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