compleat
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of compleat
1875–80; earlier spelling of complete, used phrasally in allusion to The Compleat Angler ( def. )
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Today, Brillat-Savarin's book is to cooking what Izaak Walton's The Corn-pleat Angler is to fishing: that is to say, a rambling, undisciplined, coy and compleat bore.
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Yet Blackett is such a compleat capitalist that he is willing to trade his daughter like a commodity in order to pump up the profits.
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In his home workshop, the compleat handyman usually starts out buying a little $25 utility drill to act as a portable sander, buffer and saw.
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As the Don, Paul Hecht is the compleat cynic and as seductive as the hell he courts.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Joseph Whipple met Ona, however, he was convinced of her “thirst for compleat freedom.”
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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