The word compleat should be considered poetic license. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 3] Reference
Conception, gaining a compleat and corporal Birth. From Wordnik.com. [Of Natural and Supernatural Things Also of the first Tincture, Root, and Spirit of Metals and Minerals, how the same are Conceived, Generated, Brought forth, Changed, and Augmented.] Reference
Holding our worthes more compleat for their vaunts. From Wordnik.com. [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference
Here, as it seems to to me, you have a compleat Vulcanian. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires] Reference
I must here premise, that I intend not here a full and compleat. From Wordnik.com. [A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717)] Reference
Statutes at large, Vol. 6th, to compleat the Statutes at large 5. From Wordnik.com. [The Annual Catalogue (1737) Or, A New and Compleat List of All The New Books, New Editions of Books, Pamphlets, &c.] Reference
The fourth Quality that a Fable ask's, to render it compleat, is a. From Wordnik.com. [A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717)] Reference
State Trials for High Treason, &c.Vol. 7th and 8th, to compleat the. From Wordnik.com. [The Annual Catalogue (1737) Or, A New and Compleat List of All The New Books, New Editions of Books, Pamphlets, &c.] Reference
Salt; these three gave a compleat and perfect, a tangible and formal. From Wordnik.com. [Of Natural and Supernatural Things Also of the first Tincture, Root, and Spirit of Metals and Minerals, how the same are Conceived, Generated, Brought forth, Changed, and Augmented.] Reference
Ceremony to compleat their Felicity; but it so fell out, that after a. From Wordnik.com. [Tractus de Hermaphrodites Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites] Reference
The following fact however will be a more compleat answer to this objection. From Wordnik.com. [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference
Lastly, the thirteenth is that of Walnuts, and it is added to compleat the year. From Wordnik.com. [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference
Those Pieces of his which are compleat, are only short Tracts and some occasional. From Wordnik.com. [The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan] Reference
In short, he is so compleat an Orator, that there is no quality I know of, in which. From Wordnik.com. [Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.] Reference
By this means, betwixt the Warning and the Extreme there will be one compleat Change. From Wordnik.com. [The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing] Reference
This would compleat my misery; for, I am afraid, I take all services too much to heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2] Reference
Instruments to compleat that great Work, will then be best known when it is come to pass. From Wordnik.com. [The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan] Reference
Therefore, now to compleat my promise, I will forthwith betake my self to the Dialogue or. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires] Reference
In Elizabethan times the vogue of travelling to become a "compleat person" was fully established. From Wordnik.com. [English Travellers of the Renaissance] Reference
In the following month, £20 was paid "to Olivere inclare, in compleat payment of his lyveray clathis.". From Wordnik.com. [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference
How did we wish for our dear Polly, and think that was the only thing we wanted to compleat our happiness!. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782] Reference
If you tell him of the hornes he wants to make him most compleat, he scornes the motion, and sets them at his heele. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
On p. 32 is exhibited “a compleat Alfebet” of 34 symbols (it is not complete, for L has, apparently inadvertently, been omitted). From Wordnik.com. [Magazine, or Animadversions on the English Spelling (1703)] Reference
Methods to be made and shewn on it; Let Practice, and the Dictates of the ensuing Orders compleat your Perfection in this gentile Game. From Wordnik.com. [The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing] Reference
Through love for her he adopted her favorite colors, and took for his device the crescent, with the words, "Totum donec compleat orbem.". From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
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