complimentaladj.
/kɒmplɪˈmɛntəl/ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > ceremony or formality > [adjective]
ceremonial138.
ceremonious1555
ceremonicala1627
complementary1628
complemental1637
complimental1686
Winterhalter1913
1637 H. Wotton Let. 17 Jan. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) sig. f4 After a complemental welcoming him into the Lap of the Church.
1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. i. 50 Royall assents to Lawes, are no wayes essentiall..but rather a complementall Ceremony.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 59 They were not sent into a complementall custody, but some of them thrust into the prison, of a prison.]
1686 F. Spence tr. A. Varillas Ἀνεκδοτα Ἑτερουιακα 370 The seven Cardinals..being there under a complimental confinement.
1695 T. Tryon Treat. Dreams & Visions (ed. 2) iii. 40 They..only retain the Complemental outside of Religion.]
1703 in W. B. Scoones Four Cent. Eng. Lett. 142 At the distance, I see, by this complimental way of treatment, I still am, I shall not have time enough in this world to get to you.
2. † b. Of persons: Given to paying compliments.
a. Of the nature of a compliment or formal expression of courtesy; expressive of or implying compliments. archaic and dialect.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > compliment > [adjective] > of the nature of or expressing compliment
fine1568
complemental1604
complimentary1715
complimentala1745
complimentative1778
flatteringa1797
1604 B. Jonson His Pt. Royall Entertainem. 243 Thus farre the complementall parte.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. i. 39 I will make a complementall assault vpon him for my businesse seeth's. View more context for this quotation
1629 tr. Herodian Hist. (1635) 147 In the sayd courtly and complementall lines he besought him to bee Protector of the Empire.
1654 T. Gataker Disc. Apol. 15 How the Gentrie..spent much of the Lords day in Complemental Visitations.
1669 W. Penn No Cross, No Crown ii. §7 No Courtly Dress, Gay Apparel, Complemental Respects.
1703 J. Savage tr. Select Coll. Lett. Antients 73 A Complemental Letter.]
a1745 J. Swift Wks. (1841) II. 237 The highest encomiums are to be looked upon as purely complimental.
1779 J. Moore View Society & Manners France (1789) I. x. 63 Their language abounds in complimental phrases.
1786 R. Burns Cotter's Sat. Night xi, in Poems & Songs (1968) I. 149 The Dame brings forth, in complimental mood, To grace the lad, her weel-hain'd kebbuck.
1819 T. Hope Anastasius (1820) II. 216 The complimental epistle.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > compliment > [adjective]
complimentala1720
complimentary1880
1653 D. Osborne Lett. to Sir W. Temple (1888) 113 We are certainly the most Complementall Couple in England.]
a1720 J. Sheffield Wks. (1753) II. 213 Being complimental and cringing..passes with many for good breeding.
1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women II. ix. 122 It is your smooth, cool, complimental libertines.
Derivatives
complimenˈtality n. Apparently an isolated use.
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a1797 H. Walpole Lett. to H. Mann
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