different between entire vs compleat

English

Alternative forms

• intire (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English entere, enter, borrowed from Anglo-Norman entier, from Latin integrum, accusative of integer, from in- (“not”) + tang? (“touch”). Doublet of integer.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?ta??/, /?n?ta??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?ta??/, /?n?ta??/
• Rhymes: -a??(?)

Adjective

entire (not comparable)

1. (sometimes postpositive) Whole; complete.
2. (botany) Having a smooth margin without any indentation.
3. (botany) Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
4. (complex analysis, of a complex function) Complex-differentiable on all of ?.
5. (of a male animal) Not gelded.
6. morally whole; pure; sheer
7. Internal; interior.

Derived terms

• entirety

Related terms

• integrity
• integrate

Translations

Noun

entire (countable and uncountable, plural entires)

1. (now rare) The whole of something; the entirety.
   • 1876, WE Gladstone, Homeric Synchronism:

     In the entire of the Poems we never hear of a merchant ship of the Greeks.

   • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 19:

     ‘Then is the City Magistrate the entire of your family now?’

2. An uncastrated horse; a stallion.
   • 2005, James Meek, The People's Act of Love (Canongate 2006, p. 124)

     He asked why Hijaz was an entire. You know what an entire is, do you not, Anna? A stallion which has not been castrated.

3. (philately) A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted.
4. Porter or stout as delivered from the brewery.

Translations

Anagrams

• entier, in-tree, nerite, triene

English

Verb

compleat (third-person singular simple present compleats, present participle compleating, simple past and past participle compleated)

1. Archaic spelling of complete.

   • This I was forc'd to before I had executed half my De?ign, for the Machinery was entirely wanting to compleat it.

   • 1776, the Declaration of Independence, written largely by Thomas Jefferson:

     He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy unworthy the head of a civilized nation...

Adjective

compleat (not comparable)

1. Archaic spelling of complete.
   • 1680, Robert Filmer, Patriarcha

     in that Family he might have compleat Oeconomical Power

   • 1919, Daisy Ashford, The Young Visiters Chapter 3

     Mr Salteena had put on a compleat evening suit as he thought it was the correct idea

Latin

Verb

compleat

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of comple?