adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a complemental manner.
† 1. In a way that gives completeness. Obs.
1602. Fulbecke, 2nd Pt. Parall., Ep. Ded. A subiect … by mee superficially handled, and as it were left to others to be complementally handled.
2. By way of a complement.
† 3. Ceremoniously, formally; with ceremony or civility; = COMPLIMENTALLY.
1580. Sidney, Arcadia (1622), 335. Zelmane not complementally hunting that which shee fled.
1630. trans. Camden’s Hist. Eliz., IV. (1688), 579. To observe his Duty rather complementally, than in truth and reality.
1658. Rowland, Moufet’s Theat. Ins., 1076. How complementally do they salute one the other?
1697. Dryden, Virgil (1721), I. 71. Plato … at last Complementally Banishes him [Homer] his Common-wealth.
