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Webster 1913 Edition
Perfectionate
Per-fec′tion-ate
,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)
- (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.’
- 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: