complemental
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If we could get hold of a complemental critic, a critic who saw what the age did not see, and who saw rightly what the age mistook, we should have a critic of inestimable value.
From The English Constitution by Bagehot, Walter
It appears that the method, when adopted at all, was considered to belong to the complemental and merely decorative parts of a picture.
From On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by Ruskin, John
He falls in love, not so much with what is ideally lovable in a woman, but what is practically complemental to his own nature.
From Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 by Various
Small portion of the outer integument of the complemental male, as seen with a 1/8th of an inch object glass.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
No; the response must be in kind, to be truly complemental.
From Quaint Courtships by Howells, William Dean
