Obs. Also 7 expleat. [f. L. explēt- ppl. stem of explēre, f. ex- (see EX- pref.1) + plēre to fill. In some examples perh. a var. of EXPLOIT.]
1. trans. To fill out; to satiate, satisfy; to complete (a period of time).
c. 1430. Lydg., Bochas, V. vii. (1554), 128 a. Texplete their lust certaine.
1635. Heywood, Hierarch., III. 167. The great yeare … some hold to be expleted in thiry six thousand Solarie yeres.
1650. Fuller, Pisgah, IV. vii. 123. Nothing under an Infinite, can expleat, and satiate the immortall minde of man.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 393. Wax … moderately expletes the body.
2. To do fully; to complete, accomplish.
1430. Lydg., Chron. Troy, Prol. This worke texplete that ye not refuse.
1529. in Fiddes, Wolsey, II. (1726), 171. Of suche yers, as was mete & hable to explete that act.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xxi. § 71. Being of yeeres able to explete the act.
