complemental
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It appears that the method, when adopted at all, was considered to belong to the complemental and merely decorative parts of a picture.
From On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by John Ruskin
Also if you ever find any species of Scalpellum, pray look for complemental males; a German author has recently doubted my observations for no reason except that the facts appeared to him so strange.
From Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Sir Francis Darwin
In the parasitic complemental male of S. vulgare, I also most plainly saw spermatozoa.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
Forms of poetry are complemental to each other, and one who tries to be merely dramatic without appreciating the lyric spirit becomes theatric.
From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by S. S. (Samuel Silas) Curry
If we could get hold of a complemental critic, a critic who saw what the age did not see, and who saw rightly what the age mistook, we should have a critic of inestimable value.
From The English Constitution by Walter Bagehot
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