complemental
[kom-pluh-men-tl]
adjective
complementary; completing.
Obsolete.
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Origin of complemental
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Examples from the Web for complemental
Historical Examples of complemental
It is as true as his thought of God; yet like that it needs its complemental truth.
He blended the complemental conceptions of divinity and humanity.
The word "great" in his code should have been "gage," and its complemental words "of battle."
WhirligigsO. Henry
On the males and complemental males of certain Cirripedes, and on rudimentary structures.
Life of Charles DarwinG. T. (George Thomas) Bettany
Since these dwarf males pair, not with females, but with hermaphrodites, Darwin termed them “complemental” males.