becompliment

English

Etymology

be- +‎ compliment

Verb

becompliment (third-person singular simple present becompliments, present participle becomplimenting, simple past and past participle becomplimented)

  1. (transitive, archaic) To compliment.
    • 1839, The Spectator, volume 12, page 161:
      How many times have we heard the same persons say, "I never heard the Hallelujah Chorus go so well before!" If all other becomplimented country amateurs were blessed with simplicity as great and memories as retentive as Mr. GARDINER possesses […]
    • 1832, Hermann F. H. Pückler-Muskau (Fürst von.), Tour in England, Ireland and France in the years 1828 and 1829 (page 195)
      […] the chief magistrate of the little town now thought fit to becompliment me by the mission of two of his colleagues, who were also secretaries of the Museum, which they proposed to show me.
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