compleat

[ kuh m-pleet ]

/ kəmˈplit /

highly skilled and accomplished in all aspects; complete; total: the compleat actor, at home in comedy and tragedy.

Origin of compleat

1875–80; earlier spelling of complete, used phrasally in allusion to The Compleat Angler

It would be idle to pretend business at Lausanne; but a compleat year will elapse before my return.

Private letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2) |Edward Gibbon
How did we wish for our dear Polly, and think that was the only thing we wanted to compleat our happiness!

Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782 |Lucinda Lee Orr
Now they begin to observe that there is no state or condition in the World so compleat, but it hath some kind of imperficiency.

The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and The Confession of the New-married Couple (1682) |A. Marsh
In Elizabethan times the vogue of travelling to become a "compleat person" was fully established.

English Travellers of the Renaissance |Clare Howard

I have not the least doubt of the final and compleat success of the French Revolution.

The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) |Moncure Daniel Conway

compleat

/ (kəmˈpliːt) /

an archaic spelling of complete, used esp in the titles of handbooks, in imitation of The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton