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ing complete; the getting through to the end; as, the completion of an undertaking, an education, a service. The completion of some repairs. Prescott.

Serving to fulfill. Completory of ancient presignifications. Barrow.

Assemblage of related things; colletion; complication. This parable of the wedding supper comprehends in it the whole complex of all the blessings and privileges exhibited by the gospel. South. Complex of lines (Geom.), all the possible straight lines in space being considered, the entire system of lines which satisfy…

Complex, complicated. [Obs.] "Complexed significations." Sir T. Browne.

The quality or state of being complex or involved; complication. The complexedness of these moral ideas. Locke.

That which is complex; intricacy; complication. Many-corridored complexities Of Arthur's palace. Tennyson.

A complex; an aggregate of parts; a complication.

Short for Composition; -- used, esp. in England, colloq. in various trade applications; as :

nd care in arrangement; -- often used of an elementary essay or translation done as an educational exercise.

e up of two or more simple substances. I. Watts. Compound addition, substraction, multiplication, division (Arith.), the addition, substraction, etc., of compound numbers. -- Compound crystal (Crystallog.), a twin crystal, or one seeming to be made up of two or more crystals combined according to regular laws of compo…

To take in or include by construction or implication; to comprise; to imply. Comprehended all in this one word, Discretion. Hobbes. And if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying. Rom. xiii. 9.

With great extent of signification; comprehensively. Tillotson.

Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opions and viewa; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action. All these discontens, how ruinous soever, have arisen from the want of a due communication and concert. Swift.

the eucharist, under each element, so that the body and blood are both received by comunication in one kind only.

the process of uniting or of becoming united, as particles of matter into a mass; solidification.

ilty, worthless, or forfeited; adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.

t which is requisite in order that something else should take effect; an essential qualification; stipulation; terms specified. I had as lief take her dowry with this condition, to be whipped at the high cross every morning. Shak. Many are apt to believe remission of sins, but they believe it without the condition of r…

Transmission through, or by means of, a conductor; also, conductivity. [The] communication [of heat] from one body to another when they are in contact, or through a homogenous body from particle to particle, constitutes conduction. Amer. Cyc.

A narrow passage for private communication.

Communicated in confidence; secret. "Confidential messages." Burke. Confidential communication (Law) See Privileged communication, under Privileged. -- Confidential creditors, those whose claims are of such a character that they are entitled to be paid before other creditors. -- Confidential debts, debts incurred for…