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r 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.

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.

A heterogenous group of fungi of which the complete life history is not known. Some undoubtedly represent the conidium stages of various Ascomycetes. The group is divided into the orders Sphæropsidales, Melanconiales, and Moniliales.

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.

The state or quality of being imperfectible. [R.]

Incapable of being mad perfect. [R.]