COMPLEMENTARILY

Etymology

Adverb

complementarily (comparative more complementarily, superlative most complementarily)

In a complementary manner.

Source: Wiktionary


COMPLEMENTARY

Com`ple*men"ta"ry, a.

Definition: Serving to fill out or to complete; as, complementary numbers. Complementary colors. See under Color.

– Complementary angles (Math.), two angles whose sum is 90°.

Com`ple*men"ta*ry, n. Etym: [See Complimentary.]

Definition: One skilled in compliments. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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