† complimentally, adv. Obs.
(kɒmplɪˈmɛntəlɪ)
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a complimental manner; as a matter of form; by way of compliment.
| [1580–1697 see complementally 3.] 1679 E. Everard Popish Plot 14 Which I complimentally was..wont to promise them I would do. 1680 Hon. Hodge & Ralph 22 To which the Pope complimentally answers. a 1691 Boyle Wks. (1744) IV, Publickly, and but too complimentally, taken notice of. 1748 Richardson Clarissa (1811) II. xviii. 117. |