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Webster 1913 Edition
Perfect
Per′fect
(pẽr′fĕkt)
, Adj.
1.
Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct.
My strength is made
perfect
in weakness. 2 Cor. xii. 9.
Three glorious suns, each one a
perfect
sun. Shakespeare
I fear I am not in my
perfect
mind. Shakespeare
O most entire
perfect
sacrifice! Keble.
God made thee
perfect
, not immutable. Milton.
2.
Well informed; certain; sure.
I am
perfect
that the Pannonians are now in arms. Shakespeare
3.
(Bot.)
Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; – said of a flower.
Perfect cadence
(Mus.)
, a complete and satisfactory close in the harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant.
– Perfect chord
(Mus.)
, a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly coalescent and agreeable to the ear, as the unison, octave, fifth, and fourth; a perfect consonance; a common chord in its original position of keynote, third, fifth, and octave.
– Perfect number
(Arith.)
, a number equal to the sum of all its divisors; as, 28, whose aliquot parts, or divisors, are 14, 7, 4, 2, 1. See
Abundant number
, under Abundant
. Brande & C.
– Perfect tense
(Gram.)
, a tense which expresses an act or state completed; also called the
perfective tense
.
Syn. – Finished; consummate; complete; entire; faultless; blameless; unblemished.
Per′fect
(pẽr′fĕkt)
, Noun.
The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.
Per′fect
(pẽr-fĕkt′ or pẽr′fĕkt; 277)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Perfected
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Perfecting
.] To make perfect; to finish or complete, so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to anything all that is requisite to its nature and kind.
God dwelleth in us, and his love is
perfect
in us. 1 John iv. 12.
Inquire into the nature and properties of the things, . . . and thereby
perfect
our ideas of their distinct species. Locke.
Perfecting press
(Print.)
, a press in which the printing on both sides of the paper is completed in one passage through the machine.
Syn. – To finish; accomplish; complete; consummate.
Webster 1828 Edition
Perfect
PER'FECT
,Adj.
1.
Finished; complete; consummate; not defective; having all that is requisite to its nature and kind; as a perfect statue; a perfect likeness; a perfect work; a perfect system. As full, as perfect in a hair as heart.
2.
Fully informed; completely skilled; as men perfect in the use of arms; perfect in discipline.3.
Complete in moral excellencies. Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect. Matt.5.
4.
Manifesting perfection. My strength is made perfect in weakness. 2 Cor.12.
Perfect chord,in music, a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly coalescent and agreeable to the ear, as the fifth and the octave; a perfect consonance.
A perfect flower, in botany, has both stamen and pistil, or at least another and stigma.
Perfect tense, in grammar, the preterit tense; a tense which expresses an act completed.
PER'FECT
,Verb.
T.
-Inquire into the nature and properties of things, and thereby perfect our ideas of distinct species.
If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. 1 John 4.
1.
To instruct fully; to make fully skillful; as, to perfect one's self in the rules of music or architecture; to perfect soldiers in discipline.