Middle English Dictionary Entry
complēt(e ppl. adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | complēt(e ppl. adj. |
| Etymology | L ppl. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Complete, not lacking any part; (b) fully developed, full-grown, mature; of oil: made of refined or matured ingredients.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)275b/a : In þe fourþe wombe is ful digestioun & complete.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)97b/a : Som [fracture] is complete, in which al þe bone is broken roundly, Som incompletely.
- (1469) Acc.Howard in RC 57215 : For a harneyse complet..v marc.
- c1475(a1449) Lydg.St.Giles (LdMisc 683)305 : In wich dorys..Was hool complet lyf of thapostelys xij.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)148b/b : Somtyme þe firste eiren bene corrupt by coold..and þe latter eyren beþ complete and bringeþ first briddes.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)208a/a : In plauntes lyf is y hud, and in bestes openliche y knowe and complete.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)239b/b : Þe palme bereþ no fruyte tofore an hundred ȝeer and haþ þanne furst complete and perfyte vertu.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)278b/b : If he schulde abyde for to þat whelp were complete and perfyte, he schulde sle þe moder.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)301a/a : If sche calueþ byfore þat tyme, þe calf lyueth nouȝt, nouþer his clawes ben nouȝt complete.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)307a/b : Whanne þe fruyte is complete and rype.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)93/28 : Þer is tuo manerez of oile roset, complete and rude. Complete is made of ripe oile and of ful rosez ripe.
- c1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.175 : Of þinges skars and diminute Nature ne took noght hire produccioun, Bot of a hoole complet, and absolute Fro all defaut and diminucioun.
2.
Consummate, perfect, flawless.
Associated quotations
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.1318 : Eueryche of hem of makyng and fasioun Ful wel complete by proporcioun.
- a1425(?c1384) Wycl.Church (Bod 788)362 : Men shulden bi hooli lif of Crist trowe þat his lawe is compleet, and axe noon oþir ground of þis lawe.
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)1.323 : Ech compleet resoun telliþ treuþe þat we shulde trowe.
- a1475(1450) Scrope DSP (Bod 943)232/6 : He that is most complete of wit is he that knowith him-silfe.
3.
Full (measure, period).
Associated quotations
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.1020 : Þe statue..Fiftene cubites complet was of heiȝgte.
- (1439) LRed Bk.Bristol2.156 : Withoute he have be apprentyce..vij yhere complete atte the Crafte.
- a1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)2392 : Þis blessud virgyn..Twolfe ȝere complete in hurre tombe lay.