[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That completes.

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1656.  Artif. Handsomeness (1662), 47. Where God hath put to his last and compleating hand?

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1860.  Mill, Repr. Govt. (1865), 61. The only quarter in which to look for a supplement, or completing corrective, to the instincts of a democratic majority, is the instructed minority.

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1884.  Bower & Scott, De Bary’s Phaner., 309. The completing bundles doubtless belong to the secondary formations of intercalary bundles.

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