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The act of bringing to perfection, or the state of having attained to perfection. [R.] I. Taylor.

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.

In a perfective manner.

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.

The quality or state of being perfect; perfection. "Charity, which is the bond of perfectness." Col. iii. 14.

Very fervid; too fervid; glowing; ardent.

One who performs or perfects a work; especially, one who endows a charity. [R.]

Guilty of perfidy; violating good faith or vows; false to trust or confidence reposed; teacherous; faithless; as, a perfidious friend. Shak.

In a perfidious manner.

The quality of being perfidious; perfidy. Clarendon.

tion of a promise or vow, or of trust reposed; faithlessness; teachery. The ambition and perfidy of tyrants. Macaulay. His perfidy to this sacred engagement. DeQuincey.

Perfect. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To fix surely; to appoint. [Obs.]

Capable of being blown through. [Obs.]

To blow through. [Obs.] Harvey.

The act of perflating. [Obs.] Woodward.

Having the basal part produced around the stem; -- said of leaves which the stem apparently passes directory through.

A division of Foraminifera, including those having perforated shells.

To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surface of. Bacon.

Pierced with a hole or holes, or with pores; having transparent dots resembling holes.