Dictionary
ob'ject com'plement
Gram.
a word or a group of words used in the predicate following a factitive verb and referring to its direct object, as
treasurer in
We appointed him treasurer, white in
They painted the house white, or
an interesting speaker in
They thought him an interesting speaker. Also called
objective complement. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.