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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Complet(e, Compleit, -pleat, v. Also: complett, -plitt, -plyt, -pliete. [L. complēt-, ppl. stem of complēre: cf. Complet(e,p.p. Also e.m.E. (1530).] tr. To complete, bring to an end, finish.(a) c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 543.
The hors completed was & mayd c1450-2 Howlat 730.
Haile princes that completis all prophecis pur 1471 Ayr Friars Pr. Chart. 54.
The said prior and convent than completand hail service for the saulys of the said Matho and Katrin 1482 Bamff Chart. 31.
The quhilk mariage salbe completit, solempnyt and endit … but ony langar delay 1490 Irland Mir. I. 139/35.
To complete and fulfill his will and ordinance 1507 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 77.
[He] sale … big, oupmak, … and complet the xxxiiij stallis in thar queir 1513 Doug. Æn. Concl. 2.
Completyt was this wark Virgilian, Apon the fest of Marie Magdelan 1539 Misc. Spald. C. IV. 33.
Ay and quhil al and hail the days and termis of the … nynten yeris be fullelie … completit 1551 Hamilton Cat. 131.
Quhen the uncting is completit, thair followis ane catechisme 1560 Rolland Seven S. 160.
In schort tyme … Hir naturall det scho completit of deid(b) 1513 Doug. xii. i. 6.
Thocht the tyme requiris hym … For to compleit the promys he had maid 1529 Reg. Episc. Aberd. I. 397.
To compleit and fulfill this owre said obligatioun 1553 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 181.
Robert Graham oblist him to furneis siluer … to compleit the bulwerk 1560 St. A. Kirk S. 29.
The minister … decernes the said Walter to compliete the said band with the said Catheryne 1571 Peebles B. Rec. 331.
To lift the dykis … and lay to the werk, and compleit the samin as the rest is 1596 Dalr. I. 314/3.
Thou hes now a rycht tyme to compleit thy wickednes 1622-6 Bisset II. 279/31.
Quhilk … compleited the threttie fourt ȝeir of his aige(c) 1553–4 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 286.
[The] masonis, quha compleatit and biggit xvij ruds of wark