| Perfect |
a. |
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. |
| Perfect |
a. |
Well informed; certain; sure. |
| Perfect |
a. |
Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils;
said of flower. |
| Perfect |
n. |
The perfect tense, or a form in that tense. |
| Perfect |
a. |
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. |
| Perfected |
imp. & p. p. |
of Perfect |
| Perfecter |
n. |
One who, or that which, makes perfect. |
| Perfectibilian |
n. |
A perfectionist. |
| Perfectibilist |
n. |
A perfectionist. See also Illuminati, 2. |
| Perfectibility |
n. |
The quality or state of being perfectible. |
| Perfectible |
a. |
Capable of becoming, or being made, perfect. |
| Perfecting |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Perfect |
| Perfection |
n. |
The quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing requisite is wanting; entire development; consummate culture, skill, or moral excellence; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence; maturity; as, perfection in an art, in a science, or in a system; perfection in form or degree; fruits in perfection. |
| Perfection |
n. |
A quality, endowment, or acquirement completely excellent; an ideal faultlessness; especially, the divine attribute of complete excellence. |
| Perfection |
v. t. |
To perfect. |
| Perfectional |
a. |
Of or pertaining to perfection; characterized by perfection. |
| Perfectionate |
v. t. |
To perfect. |
| Perfectionism |
n. |
The doctrine of the Perfectionists. |
| Perfectionist |
n. |
One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to moral perfection and sinlessness in this life. |
| Perfectionment |
n. |
The act of bringing to perfection, or the state of having attained to perfection. |
| Perfective |
a. |
Tending or conducing to make perfect, or to bring to perfection;
usually followed by of. |
| Perfectively |
adv. |
In a perfective manner. |
| Perfectly |
adv. |
In a perfect manner or degree; in or to perfection; completely; wholly; throughly; faultlessly. |
| Perfectness |
n. |
The quality or state of being perfect; perfection. |
