a. Now rare or Obs. [f. med.L. complacēntia + -AL.]
1. Characterized by complacency, showing satisfaction, content, or acquiescence in something.
1658. Baxter, Saving Faith, x. 74. A consenting or Complacential Approbation.
1678. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, III. 17. His wil of complacence, or complacential wil, whereby he declares what is most agreable to him.
1747. Hervey, Medit., II. 169. The highest Object of thy complacential delight.
1863. J. G. Murphy, Comm. Gen. ii. 3. Thoughts of wonder, gratitude, and complacential delight.
† 2. Disposed to please or comply; obliging, complaisant. Obs.
1655. Gurnall, Chr. in Arm., II. 294. Aaron … did not please himself … in the thing: but it was an act meerly complacential to the people.
1673. S. C., Art of Complaisance, xiii. 138. They must not onely in all entertainments use a sweet mildness & Complacential address, but also reverence.
1691. Wood, Ath. Oxon., II. 413. That book … was written to terrifie the Presbyterians and make them more complacential.
