3. An ailment or disease of the body.
One in a complaint of his bowels.
Arbuthnot.
4. (Law) A formal allegation or charge against a party made or presented to the appropriate court or
officer, as for a wrong done or a crime committed (in the latter case, generally under oath); an information; accusation; the
initial bill in proceedings in equity.
Syn. — Lamentation; murmuring; sorrow; grief; disease; illness; disorder; malady; ailment.
Complaintful
(Com*plaint"ful) a. Full of complaint. [Obs.]
Complaisance
(Com"plai*sance`) n. [F. complaisance. See Complaisant, and cf. Complacence.]
Disposition to please or oblige; obliging compliance with the wishes of others; a deportment indicative of a
desire to please; courtesy; civility.
These [ladies] . . . are by the just complaisance and gallantry of our nation the most powerful part of
our people.
Addison.
They strive with their own hearts and keep them down,
In complaisance to all the fools in town.
Young.
Syn. — Civility; courtesy; urbanity; suavity; affability; good breeding.
Complaisant
(Com"plai*sant) a. [F. complaisant, p. pr. of complaire to acquiesce as a favor, fr. L.
complacere. See Complacent.] Desirous to please; courteous; obliging; compliant; as, a complaisant
gentleman.
There are to whom my satire seems too bold:
Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough.
Pope.
Syn. — Obliging; courteous; affable; gracious; civil; polite; well-bred. See Obliging.
— Com"plai*sant`ly, adv. — Com"plai*sant`ness, n.
Complanar
(Com*pla"nar) a. See Coplanar.
Complanate
(Com"pla*nate) a. [L. complanatus, p. p. of complanare to make plane. See Plane, v.
t.] Flattened to a level surface. [R.]
Complanate
(Com"pla*nate) v. t. To make level. [R.]
Complected
(Com*plect"ed) a. Complexioned. [Low, New Eng.]
Complement
(Com"ple*ment) n. [L. complementun: cf. F. complément. See Complete, v. t., and cf.
Compliment.]
1. That which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete.
2. That which is required to supply a deficiency, or to complete a symmetrical whole.
History is the complement of poetry.
Sir J. Stephen.
3. Full quantity, number, or amount; a complete set; completeness.
To exceed his complement and number appointed him which was one hundred and twenty persons.
Hakluyt.
4. (Math.) A second quantity added to a given quantity to make it equal to a third given quantity.
