compleat

[ kuhm-pleet ]

adjective
  1. highly skilled and accomplished in all aspects; complete; total: the compleat actor, at home in comedy and tragedy.

Origin of compleat

1
1875–80; earlier spelling of complete, used phrasally in allusion to The Compleat Angler

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British Dictionary definitions for compleat

compleat

/ (kəmˈpliːt) /


adjective
  1. an archaic spelling of complete, used esp in the titles of handbooks, in imitation of The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton

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