Definition of "pleting" []

• A Middle English form of pleading. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "But Stile was held silent, and the White Adept was com - pleting her new symbol figure."
• "A prisoner using a bone knife would die of old age before com-pleting the task."
• "In the first alternative, authority referred to the special respect that was due to the accountable origi - nator (author) of a complete idea or activity by those who simply comply with it; in the second, authority refers to the originator's (authorizer's) rightful transfer of his claim on this special respect to those who comply with his original incomplete idea or activity by com - pleting it."