compleat

compleat
/keuhm pleet"/, adj.
highly skilled and accomplished in all aspects; complete; total: the compleat actor, at home in comedy and tragedy.
[1875-80; earlier sp. of COMPLETE, used phrasally in allusion to THE COMPLEAT ANGLER]

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  • compleat — adjective Etymology: archaic variant of complete in The Compleat Angler (1653) by Izaak Walton Date: 1526 having all necessary or desired elements or skills ; complete; also classic, quintessential …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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