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- adjective
superlative form ofcompleat : mostcompleat .
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Examples
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But of course if your a true collector fanboy you have to own it because you are also a compleatest at heart compleatest: the fanboy version of obsessive compulsive disorder so if you must own everything Reservoir Dogs you can order the mini-statues from CornerStoreComics.com.
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Burgoyne left it to the judgment of his readers "whether the present unnatural Rebellion has not been made the Foundation of the compleatest System of Tyranny that ever God, in his Displeasure, suffered, for a Time, to be excercised over a froward and stubborn Generation."
Lance Mannion: 2004
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Burgoyne left it to the judgment of his readers "whether the present unnatural Rebellion has not been made the Foundation of the compleatest System of Tyranny that ever God, in his Displeasure, suffered, for a Time, to be excercised over a froward and stubborn Generation."
Gentleman Johnny 2004
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This last is the compleatest of all; because that Soul only that knows how to be so taken off, is that which attains to being lost in God, and only knows where to be in safety.
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'The above two volumes are supposed to comprise the compleatest collection of Gascoigne's works extant.'
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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This is the compleatest English dress, in which Virgil ever appeared.
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753
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For as the number of our duties is, in a manner, infinite, it is impossible that our original instincts should extend to each of them, and from our very first infancy impress on the human mind all that multitude of precepts, which are contained in the compleatest system of ethics.
A Treatise of Human Nature David Hume 1743
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For as the number of our duties is, in a manner, infinite, it is impossible that our original instincts should extend to each of them, and from our very first infancy impress on the human mind all that multitude of precepts, which are contained in the compleatest system of ethics.
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Methinks it is a Misfortune, that the Marriage State, which in its own Nature is adapted to give us the compleatest
The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700
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The body now convened,β it said, βis perhaps one of the compleatest representations of the interests and sentiments of their constituents, that ever were assembled.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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