ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.] Finished, made complete.
1665. Glanvill, Sceps. Sci., xxv. There’s but little resemblance between the Mucous sperm, and the compleated Animal.
1861. Mrs. Norton, Lady La G., Concl. 17.
| What’s DONE, is what remains! Ah, blessed they | |
| Who leave completed tasks of love to stay | |
| And answer mutely for them, being dead, | |
| Life was not purposeless, though Life be fled. |
1874. Roby, Lat. Gram., § 1450. The perfect, completed future, and pluperfect express completed action.
Hence Completedness.
1862. Lytton, Str. Story, I. 122. Our two hearts … blending … into the completedness of a solemn union.
