[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the verb COMPLETE; completion.
1644. Milton, Areop. (Arb.), 53. For God sure esteems the growth and compleating of one vertuous person, more then the restraint of ten vitious.
1651. W. G., trans. Cowel’s Inst., 183. The other Formes were rather Ornaments and Compleatings.
1727. Dart, Canterb. Cathedr., 8. Malmesbury by mistake ascribes the compleating of it to Ernulfus.
1801. in Picton, L’pool Munic. Rec. (1886), II. 363. The entire completing of the Plan.
