Word Meanings - PERFECTIONATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To perfect. 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
• 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.
• PERFECTIBILIAN
  A perfectionist. Ed. Rev.
• PERFECTER
  One who, or that which, makes perfect. "The . . . perfecter of our faith." Barrow.
• PERFECTIONATE
  To perfect. Dryden.
• PERFECTIONISM
  The doctrine of the Perfectionists.
• PERFECTIVELY
  In a perfective manner.
• 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.
• PERFECTIBILIST
  A perfectionist. See also Illuminati, 2.
• PERFECTIVE
  Tending or conducing to make perfect, or to bring to perfection; -- usually followed by of. "A perfective alteration." Fuller. Actions perfective of their natures. Ray.
• PERFECTIONIST
  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. South.
• 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.
• IMPERFECTIBLE
  Incapable of being mad perfect.
• IMPERFECTIBILITY
  The state or quality of being imperfectible.
• PRETERIMPERFECT
  Old name of the tense also called imperfect.
• PLUPERFECT
  More than perfect; past perfect; -- said of the tense which denotes that an action or event was completed at or before the time of another past action or event. -- n.
• UNPERFECTION
  Want of perfection; imperfection. Wyclif.
• PRETERPLUPERFECT
  Old name of the tense also called pluperfect.