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Free to excess; too liberal; too familiar. -- O"ver*free"ly, adv.

To put too much freight in or upon; to load too full, or too heavily; to overload.

Too frequent.

To cover with a frieze, or as with a frieze. E. Hall.

To confront; to oppose; to withstand. [Obs.] Milton.

Too fruitful.

Too full; filled to overflowing; excessively full; surfeited. Shak.

The state of being excessively or abnormally full, so as to cause overflow, distention, or congestion; excess of fullness; surfeit.

The head of a family; in a large sense, the proprietor of an estate; one who is his own master.

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. Shak. I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Shak. O most entire perfect sacrifice! Keble. God made thee perfect, not immutable. Milton.…

One who, or that which, makes perfect. "The . . . perfecter of our faith." Barrow.

A perfectionist. [R.] Ed. Rev.

A perfectionist. See also Illuminati, 2. [R.]

The quality or state of being perfectible.

Capable of becoming, or being made, perfect.

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 per…

Of or pertaining to perfection; characterized by perfection. [R.] Bp. Pearson.

To perfect. Dryden.

The doctrine of the Perfectionists.

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.