complemental

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The higher complemental parts, which are parallel to animal life, move more quickly, but yet without melodious connection and significant progress.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur

No; the response must be in kind to be truly complemental.

From Between the Dark and the Daylight by Howells, William Dean

Forms of poetry are complemental to each other, and one who tries to be merely dramatic without appreciating the lyric spirit becomes theatric.

From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by Curry, S. S. (Samuel Silas)

The complemental males of certain Cirripedes live like epiphytic plants either on the female or the hermaphrodite form, and are destitute of a mouth and of prehensile limbs.

From The Descent of Man by Darwin, Charles

By so living together a wise husband and a loving wife will soon discover that they two are but complemental to each other—like the Will and Understanding of one individual.

From Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects by Guernsey, Henry Newell