Desirous to please; courteous; obliging; compliant; as, a complaisant gentleman.
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See Coplanar.
To make level.
Complexioned.
To supply a lack; to supplement.
Supplying, or tending to supply, a deficiency; fully completing.
One skilled in compliments.
the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate.
To bring to a state in which there is no deficiency; to perfect; to consummate; to accomplish; to fulfill; to finish; as, to complete a task, or a poem; to complete a course of education.
brought to a conclusion.
In a complete manner; fully.
Act of completing or perfecting; completion.
The state of being complete.
serving to complete.
The act or process of making complete; the getting through to the end; as, the completion of an undertaking, an education, a service.
Making complete.
Same as Compline.
Assemblage of related things; collection; complication.
Complex, complicated.
The quality or state of being complex or involved; complication.
The state of being complex; complexity.
Of or pertaining to constitutional complexion.
Constitutionally.
Pertaining to the complexion, or to the care of it.
Having (such) a complexion; -- used in composition; as, a dark-complexioned or a ruddy-complexioned person.
The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement.
In a complex manner; not simply.
The state of being complex; complexity.
A complex; an aggregate of parts; a complication.
Capable of bending or yielding; apt to yield; compliant.
The act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand, or proposal; concession; submission.
Compliance; disposition to yield to others.
Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive.
In a compliant manner.
A state of being complicate or intricate.
Overlapping, as the elytra of certain beetles.
To fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult.
In a complex manner.
Complexity.
the act or process of making something more complex.
The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity.
An accomplice.
The state of being an accomplice; participation in guilt.
One who complies, yields, or obeys; one of an easy, yielding temper.
To pass compliments; to use conventional expressions of respect.
Complimentary.
Expressive of regard or praise; of the nature of, or containing, a compliment; as, a complimentary remark; a complimentary ticket.
Complimentary.
One who compliments; one given to complimenting; a flatterer.
The last division of the Roman Catholic breviary; the seventh and last of the canonical hours of the Western church; the last prayer of the day, to be said after sunset.
To plot or plan together; to conspire; to join in a secret design.
A plotting together.
One joined in a plot.
Of or pertaining to Complutum (now Alcala de Henares) a city near Madrid; as, the Complutensian Bible.
A space left unroofed over the court of a Roman dwelling, through which the rain fell into the impluvium or cistern.
To fulfill; to accomplish.
pr. p. of comply.
Short for Composition; -- used, esp. in England, colloq. in various trade applications; A mortar made of sand and cement. A carver's mixture of resin, whiting, and glue, used instead of plaster of Paris for ornamenting walls and cornices. A composition for billiard balls. A preparation of which printer's rollers are made. A preparation used in currying leather. Composition paid by a debtor.
See Compony.
Divided into squares of alternate tinctures in a single row; -- said of any bearing; or, in the case of a bearing having curved lines, divided into patches of alternate colors following the curve. If there are two rows it is called counter-compony.
A constituent part; an ingredient.
Manner of acting; behavior; conduct; deportment.
Suitable; consistent.
Behavior; comport.
A bringing together.
Manner of acting; behavior; bearing.
Sane in mind; being of sound mind, memory, and understanding.
One who is compos mentis.
To come to terms.
Free from agitation; calm; sedate; quiet; tranquil; self-possessed.
One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music.
Tending to compose or soothe.
A large family of dicotyledonous plants, having their flowers arranged in dense heads of many small florets and their anthers united in a tube. The daisy, dandelion, and asters, are examples.
That which is made up of parts or compounded of several elements; composition; combination; compound.
The act or art of composing, or forming a whole or integral, by placing together and uniting different things, parts, or ingredients. The invention or combination of the parts of any literary work or discourse, or of a work of art; as, the composition of a poem or a piece of music. The art or practice of so combining the different parts of a work of art as to produce a harmonious whole; also, a work of art considered as such. See 4, below. The act of writing for practice in a language, as English, Latin, German, etc. The setting up of type and arranging it for printing.
Having the quality of entering into composition; compounded.
One who composes or sets in order.
Belonging to the Composit/; composite.
Able to exist with another thing; consistent.
To manure with compost.
Manure; compost.
The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition.
The act of drinking or tippling together.
One who drinks with another.
A preparation of fruit in sirup in such a manner as to preserve its form, either whole, halved, or quartered; as, a compote of pears.
A dish for holding compotes, fruit, etc.; a compote dish, or compote{2}.
That which is compounded or formed by the union or mixture of elements ingredients, or parts; a combination of simples; a compound word; the result of composition.
That may be compounded.
combined into or constituting a chemical compound.
One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a compounder of medicines.
the act of combining things.
A kind of steward or agent.
A praying together.
To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire.
able to be understood. Opposite of incomprehensible.
The quality or state of being comprehensible; capability of being understood.
Capable of being comprehended, included, or comprised.
The quality of being comprehensible; comprehensibility.
With great extent of signification; comprehensively.
The act of comprehending, containing, or comprising; inclusion.
Including much; comprising many things; having a wide scope or a full view.
In a comprehensive manner; with great extent of scope.
The quality of being comprehensive; extensiveness of scope.
One who comprehends; one who has attained to a full knowledge.
A folded piece of cloth, pledget of lint, etc., used to cover the dressing of wounds, and so placed as, by the aid of a bandage, to make due pressure on any part.
Pressed together; compacted; reduced in volume by pressure.
The quality of being compressible of being compressible; as, the compressibility of elastic fluids.
Capable of being pressed together or forced into a narrower compass, as an elastic or spongy substance.
The quality of being compressible; compressibility.
The act of compressing, or state of being compressed.
Compressing, or having power or tendency to compress; as, a compressive force.
Anything which serves to compress A muscle that compresses certain parts. An instrument for compressing an artery (esp., the femoral artery) or other part. An apparatus for confining or flattening between glass plates an object to be examined with the microscope; -- called also compressorium. A machine for compressing gases; especially, an air compressor.
Compression.
The surreptitious printing of another's copy or book; a work thus printed.
The act of comprising or comprehending; a compendium or epitome.
To comprehend; to include.
To agree; to concur.
Joint attestation; proof.
To agree; to accord.
One who compromises.
Relating to compromise.
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