complemental

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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 Bagehot, Walter

In a happy marriage these differences become complemental, rendering possible that superior unity in which the two are made one.

From What a Young Husband Ought to Know by Stall, Sylvanus

He falls in love, not so much with what is ideally lovable in a woman, but what is practically complemental to his own nature.

From Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 by Various

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 Darwin, Charles

The two expressions, song and action, were one; they were mutually complemental.

From Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Krehbiel, Henry Edward