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▪ I. completing, vbl. n.|kəmˈpliːtɪŋ| [f. complete v. + -ing1.] The action of the verb; completion.
1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 53 For God sure esteems the growth and compleating of one vertuous person, more then the restraint of ten vitious. 1651G. W. tr. Cowel's Inst. 183 The other Formes were rather Ornaments and Compleatings. 1727J. Dart Canterb. Cathedr. 8 Malmesbury by mistake ascribes the compleating of it to Ernulfus. 1801in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 363 The entire completing of the Plan. ▪ II. comˈpleting, ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ing2.] That completes.
1656Artif. Handsomeness (1662) 47 Where God hath put to his last and compleating hand? 1860Mill Repr. Govt. (1865) 61 The only quarter in which to look for a supplement, or completing corrective, to the instincts of a democratic majority, is the instructed minority. 1884Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. 309 The completing bundles doubtless belong to the secondary formations of intercalary bundles. |