Dictionary: PER-FEC'TION – PER-FO-RA'TION

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PER-FEC'TION, v.t.

To complete; to make perfect.

PER-FEC'TION-AL, a.

Made complete. – Pearson.

PER-FEC'TION-ATE, v.

used by Dryden and Tooke, in lieu of the verb to perfect, is a useless word.

PER-FEC'TION-ED, pp.

Made perfect.

PER-FEC'TION-ING, ppr.

Making perfect.

PER-FEC'TION-IST, n.

One pretending to perfection; an enthusiast in religion. – South.

PER-FEC'TION-MENT, n.

State of being perfect. – Taylor.

PER-FECT'IVE, a.

Conducing to make perfect or bring to perfection; followed by of. Praise and adoration are actions perfective of the soul. – More.

PER-FECT'IVE-LY, adv.

In a manner that brings to perfection. – Grew.

PER'FECT-LY, adv.

  1. In the highest degree of excellence.
  2. Totally; completely; as, work perfectly executed or performed; a thing perfectly new.
  3. Exactly; accurately; as, a proposition perfectly understood.

PER'FECT-NESS, n.

  1. Completeness; consummate excellence; perfection.
  2. The highest degree of goodness or holiness of which man is capable in this life. And above all things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. – Col. iii.
  3. Accurate skill. – Shak.

PER-FI'CIENT, n. [L. perficiens.]

One who endows a charity.

PER-FID'I-OUS, a. [L. perfidus; per and fidus, faithful. Per in this word signifies through, beyond, or by, aside.]

  1. Violating good faith or vows; false to trust or confidence reposed; treacherous; as, a perfidious agent; a perfidious friend. [See Perfidy.]
  2. Proceeding from treachery, or consisting in breach of faith; as, a perfidious act.
  3. Guilty of violated allegiance; as, a perfidious citizen; a man perfidious to his country.

PER-FID'I-OUS-LY, adv.

Treacherously; traitorously; by breach of faith or allegiance. – Swift.

PER-FID'I-OUS-NESS, n.

The quality of being perfidious; treachery; traitorousness; breach of faith, of vows or allegiance.

PER'FI-DY, n. [L. perfidia; per and fides, faith.]

The act of violating faith, a promise, vow or allegiance; treachery; the violation of a trust reposed. Perfidy is not applied to violations of contracts in ordinary pecuniary transactions, but to violations of faith or trust in friendship, in agency and office, in allegiance, in connubial engagements, and in the transactions of kings.

PER'FLA-BLE, a. [L. perflo.]

That may be blown through. [Not used.]

PER-FLATE, v.t. [L. perflo; per and flo, to blow.]

To blow through. – Harvey.

PER-FLA'TED, pp.

Blown through.

PER-FLA'TION, n.

The act of blowing through. Woodward.

PER-FO'LI-ATE, a. [L. per and folium, a leaf.]

In botany, a perfoliate leaf is one that has the base entirely surrounding the stem transversely. – Martyn.

PER'FO-RATE, v.t. [L. perforo; per and foro, Eng. to bore.]

  1. To bore through.
  2. To pierce with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through any thing by boring or driving; as, to perforate the bottom of a vessel.

PER'FO-RA-TED, pp.

Bored or pierced through; pierced.

PER'FO-RA-TING, ppr.

Boring or piercing through; piercing.

PER-FO-RA'TION, n.

  1. The act of boring or piercing through.
  2. A hole or aperture passing through any thing, or into the interior of a substance, whether natural or made by an instrument.