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Webster 1913 Edition


Perfectionate

Per-fec′tion-ate

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Verb.
T.
To perfect.
Dryden.

Webster 1828 Edition


Perfectionate

PERFEC'TIONATE

, used by Dryden and Tooke, in lieu of the verb to perfect, is a useless word.

Definition 2024


perfectionate

perfectionate

English

Verb

perfectionate (third-person singular simple present perfectionates, present participle perfectionating, simple past and past participle perfectionated)

  1. (transitive, now rare) To make perfect or complete; to perfect. [from 16th c.]
    • 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein:
      ‘I agree with you,’ replied the stranger; ‘we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves—such a friend ought to be—do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures.’