Word Meanings - COMPLETEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Act of completing or perfecting; completion. Dryden.

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• PERFECT
  Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower. Perfect cadence , a complete and satisfactory close in harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant. -- Perfect chord , a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly
• COMPLETE
  Having all the parts or organs which belong to it or to the typical form; having calyx, corolla, stamens, and pistil. Syn. -- See Whole. (more info) 1. Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficienty; entire; perfect; consummate.
• COMPLETENESS
  The state of being complete.
• PERFECTIONAL
  Of or pertaining to perfection; characterized by perfection. Bp. Pearson.
• PERFECTIBILITY
  The quality or state of being perfectible.
• PERFECTIBLE
  Capable of becoming, or being made, perfect.
• PERFECTION
  1. 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
• PERFECTNESS
  The quality or state of being perfect; perfection. "Charity, which is the bond of perfectness." Col. iii. 14.
• PERFECTIONMENT
  The act of bringing to perfection, or the state of having attained to perfection. I. Taylor.
• COMPLETION
  1. The act or process of making complete; the getting through to the end; as, the completion of an undertaking, an education, a service. The completion of some repairs. Prescott. 2. State of being complete; fulfillment; accomplishment; realization.
• PERFECTIBILIAN
  A perfectionist. Ed. Rev.
• PERFECTER
  One who, or that which, makes perfect. "The . . . perfecter of our faith." Barrow.
• PERFECTIONATE
  To perfect. Dryden.
• COMPLETORY
  Serving to fulfill. Completory of ancient presignifications. Barrow.
• COMPLETELY
  In a complete manner; fully.
• PERFECTIONISM
  The doctrine of the Perfectionists.
• COMPLETEMENT
  Act of completing or perfecting; completion. Dryden.
• PERFECTIVELY
  In a perfective manner.
• COMPLETIVE
  Making complete. J. Harris.
• PERFECTLY
  In a perfect manner or degree; in or to perfection; completely; wholly; throughly; faultlessly. "Perfectly divine." Milton. As many as touched were made perfectly whole. Matt. xiv. 36.
• INCOMPLETE
  Wanting any of the usual floral organs; -- said of a flower. Incomplete equation , an equation some of whose terms are wanting; or one in which the coefficient of some one or more of the powers of the unknown quantity is equal to 0. (more info)
• IMPERFECT
  1. Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient. Something he left imperfect in the state. Shak. Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect. Shak. 2. Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential
• UNPERFECT
  To mar or destroy the perfection of. Sir P. Sidney.
• NONCOMPLETION
  Lack of completion; failure to complete.
• IMPERFECTIBLE
  Incapable of being mad perfect.
• ACCOMPLETIVE
  Tending to accomplish.
• IMPERFECTIBILITY
  The state or quality of being imperfectible.