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adjective

Perfect adj.

Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct. "My strength is made perfect in weakness." "Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun." "I fear I am not in my perfect mind." "O most entire perfect sacrifice!" "God made thee perfect, not immutable."

Well informed; certain; sure. "I am perfect that the Pannonians are now in arms."

(Bot.) Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; said of a flower.

Perfect cadence (Mus.), a complete and satisfactory close in the harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant.

Perfect chord (Mus.), a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly coalescent and agreeable to the ear, as the unison, octave, fifth, and fourth; a perfect consonance; a common chord in its original position of keynote, third, fifth, and octave.

Perfect number (Arith.), a number equal to the sum of all its divisors; as, 28, whose aliquot parts, or divisors, are 14, 7, 4, 2, 1. See Abundant number, under Abundant.

Perfect tense (Gram.), a tense which expresses an act or state completed; also called the perfective tense.

Synonyms: Finished; consummate; complete; entire; faultless; blameless; unblemished.

verb

Perfect v. t. (past & past part. perfected; pres. part. perfecting) To make perfect; to finish or complete, so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to anything all that is requisite to its nature and kind. "God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfect in us." "Inquire into the nature and properties of the things,... and thereby perfect our ideas of their distinct species."

Perfecting press (Print.), a press in which the printing on both sides of the paper is completed in one passage through the machine.

Synonyms: To finish; accomplish; complete; consummate.

noun

Perfect n. The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.

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"Perfect" Quotes from Famous Books

... young warm life. She was as sweet as before, but there was a soft shyness over her, a half-shamed, half-frank consciousness in her face, a glad light in her eyes that made her all new to me. Her perfect trust in ...

— Black Rock • Ralph Connor

... but to do otherwise would be an act of ingratitude to my servant, Private J. B. COX. I told him this morning that I had lost my pocket pen, a cheap affair made of tin. I instructed him to find it, and J. B. is one of those perfect factotums who do as they are told. He has a sharp eye and no scruples, and so, owing to the fact that three other officers live in my billet, he was able to find two valuable fountain pens and one stylographic in no time. The exigencies of ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 14, 1914 • Various

... perfect modesty; ordered a bottle of sherry and a bread cake to the little dingy lodgings where she dwelt, while conducting the business, to treat the enemy's lawyers: shook hands with them at parting, in excellent ...

— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray

... distinguished from what is wrong with the precision of an algebraic equation. They have, therefore, none too much charity towards others who differ from them. They are apt, too, to think that nothing is good but what is perfect, and that there are no compromises or modifications to be made in consideration of difference of opinion or in deference to other men's judgment. If their perspicacious vision enables them to detect a spot on the face of the sun, they think that a good reason why the sun ...

— The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster • Daniel Webster

... which can find ready entrance into the mind of a young man who sees a girl blooming with the freshness and beauty of youth. It would have seemed to him, had he thought about it at all, that Marion's health was perfect. But he was afraid of her obstinacy, and he felt that this objection might be more binding on her than that which she put forward in reference to his rank. He went back, therefore, to Hendon Hall only half-satisfied,—sometimes ...

— Marion Fay • Anthony Trollope

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