adv. Obs. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a complimental manner; as a matter of form; by way of compliment.
[1580–1697. see COMPLEMENTALLY 3.]
1679. Everard, Popish Plot, 14. Which I complimentally was … wont to promise them I would do.
1680. Hon. Hodge & Ralph, 22. To which the Pope complimentally answers.
a. 1691. Boyle, Wks. (1744), IV. Publickly, and but too complimentally, taken notice of.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), II. xviii. 117. As she attended me at dinner, she took notice, That Nature is satisfied with a very little nourishment: and thus she complimentally proved it.
