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To plead. [Obs.] P. Plowman.

; with no part or element lacking; free from deficienty; entire; perfect; consummate. "Complete perfections." Milton. Ye are complete in him. Col. ii. 10. That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revesit'st thus the glimpses of the moon. Shak.

In a complete manner; fully.

Act of completing or perfecting; completion. [Obs.] Dryden.

The state of being complete.

To counterplead. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine. Copland.

Not complete; not filled up; not finished; not having all its parts, or not having them all adjusted; imperfect; defective. A most imperfect and incomplete divine. Milton.

In an incomplete manner.

The state of being incomplete; imperfectness; defectiveness. Boyle.

Filled; crowded. [Obs.] Johnson.

Filled again; completely filled; full; charged; abounding. "His words replete with guile." Milton. When he of wine was replet at his feast. Chaucer. In heads repiete with thoughts of other men. Cowper.

The state of being replete.

Incomplete. Pope.

A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.

ome to maturity, or anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a complete failure; as, his attempt. proved an abortiori.

Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty. So absolute she seems, And in herself complete. Milton.

Not defective; complete; as, an acatalectic verse. -- n.

companies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry. Specifically: (Mus.)

To complete, as time or distance. That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. Dan. ix. 2. He had accomplished half a league or more. Prescott.