Middle English Dictionary Entry
uncomplēte adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | uncomplēte adj. |
| Etymology | From complēt(e ppl. as adj. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Not fully formed, imperfect, defective; ~ nombre, a number lacking a sufficient number of digits to permit performance of a prescribed arithmetical calculation.
Associated quotations
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)1102/31 : Þe femel of suche bestes bringeþ forþ children vncomplete and vnparfyte, as þe bicche bryngeþ forþ blynde whelpes.
- c1450 Art Number.(Ashm 396)51/7 : Yf in the nombre proposede ther ben no place of thowsandes, me most begynne vnder the first figure in the extraccioun of the rote, Some vsen forto distingue the nombre by threes, and ay begynne forto wirche vndre the first of the last ternary other uncomplete nombre, the whiche maner of operacioun accordethe with that before.