completory, a. and n.
(kəmˈpliːtərɪ)
In 5–7 -orie.
[ad. L. complētōri-us (found only as neut. n., in Eccl. use), f. complēt-; see above, and -ory.]
A. adj. Having the function of completing or perfecting; affording completion (of).
| 1659 Heylin Animadv. in Fuller App. Inj. Innoc. (1840) 346 In no degree essential to, or completory of, the Sacrament. a 1677 Barrow Serm. Wks. 1716 II. 268 The passion of our Lord..completory of ancient..predictions. 1880 Fairbairn Stud. Life Christ xv. (1881) 270 His mission to be not hostile to Judaism, but completory of it. |
B. n.
1. A completory thing; anything whose function it is to afford completion.
| 1659 H. L'Estrange Alliance Div. Off. 390 The ceremony was considered..as the completory and close of Baptism. 1751 Wesley Wks. (1872) XIV. 175 A completory, that is, the premiss which is wanting in an enthymeme, to complete the syllogism. |
2. [Eccl. L. complētōrium.] = compline.
| c 1450 Mirour Saluacioun 4535 In the houre of completorie. 1536 in Burnet Hist. Ref. Records iii. iii. (1715) 134 Between even songe and completorie. 1619 W. Perkins Cases Consc. 166 The seauenth and last [hour], is after the Sunne-setting, which they call the Completorie. 1802 Fosbroke Brit. Monachism (1843) iv. 31 The bell was then rung for Completory. |