complemental
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Origin of complemental
First recorded in 1595–1605; complement + -al 1
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It appears that the method, when adopted at all, was considered to belong to the complemental and merely decorative parts of a picture.
From On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by John Ruskin
For any analogy to the existence of males, complemental to hermaphrodites, we must look to the vegetable kingdom.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
While of the contrasted yet complemental civic life of fullest, broadest action, what expression like the Roman eagle—the very eyes of keenness, and the spreading wings of power?
From Civics: as Applied Sociology by Patrick Geddes
It would seem to combine with outside complemental matter drifted to it at random.
From Unconscious Memory by Samuel Butler
Small portion of the outer integument of the complemental male, as seen with a 1/8th of an inch object glass.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
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