perfect
perfect
adj.
P. and V. τέλειος, τέλεος, παντελής, V. ἐκτελής.
Of a victim, without blemish: V. ἐντελής.
Full: P. and V. πλήρης.
Irreproachable: P. and V. ἄ̆μεμπτος, V. ἄ̆μωμος, ἀ̆μεμφής. ἄ̆μομφος.
Complete, absolute: P. ἁπλοῦς, ἄκρατος.
In one’s prime: see under prime.
adj.
P. and V. τέλειος, τέλεος, παντελής, V. ἐκτελής.
Of a victim, without blemish: V. ἐντελής.
Full: P. and V. πλήρης.
Irreproachable: P. and V. ἄ̆μεμπτος, V. ἄ̆μωμος, ἀ̆μεμφής. ἄ̆μομφος.
Complete, absolute: P. ἁπλοῦς, ἄκρατος.
In one’s prime: see under prime.
perfect
v. trans.
Make perfect: P. τελεοῦν, V. τελειοῦν, P. and V. ἐκπονεῖν (or mid.), ἐξεργάζεσθαι; see complete, work out.
Finish off: Ar. and P. ἀ̆περγάζεσθαι.
Accomplish: P. and V. ἀ̆νύτειν, κᾰτᾰνύτειν ; see accomplish.
v. trans.
Make perfect: P. τελεοῦν, V. τελειοῦν, P. and V. ἐκπονεῖν (or mid.), ἐξεργάζεσθαι; see complete, work out.
Finish off: Ar. and P. ἀ̆περγάζεσθαι.
Accomplish: P. and V. ἀ̆νύτειν, κᾰτᾰνύτειν ; see accomplish.
PERFECT
plenus (general term having its full number size etc): integer (whole unmutilated etc.): absolutus: perfectus. (The words are found in this connection and order.) absolutus et perfectus: perfectus atque absolutus: expletus et perfectus: perfectus cumulatusque: perfectus completusque (that has the highest perfection): verus: germanus (real genuine): thoroughly perfect absolutus omnibus numeris: perfectus expletusque omnibus suis numeris et partibus: totus (whole opposed to the single parts): totus integer (in the fullest manner or sense; Gell. 12 1 in.): a perfect duty perfectum absolutumque officium: perfect virtue perfecta cumulataque virtus: a perfect orator orator plenus atque perfectus; perfectus homo in dicendo et perpolitus: more perfect perfectior (e.g. perpolitius aliquid perfectiusque Cic.): most perfect summus et perfectissimus (Cic.). Anything is perfect madness aliquid summae est dementiae (e.g. exspectare dum etc.): a perfect philosopher philosophus absolutus: a perfect orator orator perfectus; homo perfectus in dicendo: a perfect Stoic perfectus Stoicus (that can not be found fault with): germanissimus Stoicus (deviating in nothing from the Stoic school): to make anything perfect absolvere (to accomplish anything so that nothing is wanting in it; e.g. a benefaction beneficium): cumulare aliquid (to put the finishing stroke to a thing to crown it; e.g. joy gaudium).
plenus (general term having its full number size etc): integer (whole unmutilated etc.): absolutus: perfectus. (The words are found in this connection and order.) absolutus et perfectus: perfectus atque absolutus: expletus et perfectus: perfectus cumulatusque: perfectus completusque (that has the highest perfection): verus: germanus (real genuine): thoroughly perfect absolutus omnibus numeris: perfectus expletusque omnibus suis numeris et partibus: totus (whole opposed to the single parts): totus integer (in the fullest manner or sense; Gell. 12 1 in.): a perfect duty perfectum absolutumque officium: perfect virtue perfecta cumulataque virtus: a perfect orator orator plenus atque perfectus; perfectus homo in dicendo et perpolitus: more perfect perfectior (e.g. perpolitius aliquid perfectiusque Cic.): most perfect summus et perfectissimus (Cic.). Anything is perfect madness aliquid summae est dementiae (e.g. exspectare dum etc.): a perfect philosopher philosophus absolutus: a perfect orator orator perfectus; homo perfectus in dicendo: a perfect Stoic perfectus Stoicus (that can not be found fault with): germanissimus Stoicus (deviating in nothing from the Stoic school): to make anything perfect absolvere (to accomplish anything so that nothing is wanting in it; e.g. a benefaction beneficium): cumulare aliquid (to put the finishing stroke to a thing to crown it; e.g. joy gaudium).
v. perficere; conficere; absolvere. (The words are found in this connection and order.) absolvere et perficere. Vid: To COMPLETE.
perfect (adj.):
I. Complete in every part, lacking nothing:
1. perfectus: the universe is p. in every way, seeing it embraces all things, mundus, quoniam omnia complexus est, p. undique est, Cic. N. D. 2, 14, 38. more fully, perfectus expletusque omnibus suis numeris et partibus, ib. 2, 13, extr: the complete and p. orator orator plenus atque p., id. de Or. 1, 13, extr: nothing p. in every part, nihil ex omni parte p., id. Inv 2, 1, 3. Join: perfectus completusque, id. Or. 50, 168: perfectus et absolutus [et omnes numeros habens: a Stoical phr.], id. Off. 3, 3, 14.
2. absŏlūtus a book p. in every respect, liber omnibus numeris absolutus, Plin. Ep. 9, 38 cf. supr. (usu. found in connexion with some other word).
3. plēnus a p. number numerus p., Cic. Rep. 6, 12 cf. supr. (1) vCOMPLETE .
4. intĕger vENTIRE .
II. Characterized by the highest excellence:
1. perfectus nothing more p. in its kind than (our) actors, histrionibus nihil in suo genere perfectius, Cic. Or. 31, 109: p. in every kind of speech, in omni genere sermonis p., id. de Or 1, 9, 35: absolutely p., [summus et] perfectissimus, ib. 1, 3.
2. absŏlūtus (acc. to Kr. indicating especially, inner excellence, while perfectus points rather to outward completeness and finish): he painted a hero of most p. execution, pinxit heroa absolutissimi operis, Plin. 35, 10 36 § 74. Phr.: there is no one of them who is not p. in his art, nec quisquam eorum est, cui quicquam in arte sua deesse videatur, Cic. de Or. 3, 7, 26: no one absolutely p., nemo in quo nihil aut desideretur aut reprehendatur, Quint. 10, 2, 9 an absolutely p. artist, artifex adeo excellens ut nihil possit ultra, cf. Cic. Att. 15, 1, B (oratio scripta elegantissime sententiis, verbis; ut nihil possit ultra) a p. scholar, (homo) perfecte planeque eruditus, id. Br. 81, 282; absolute doctus, Suet. Gr. 4.
III. In moral sense, without faults or sin: perfectus: cf. Cic. Off. 1, 15, init., vivitur non cum perfectis hominibus: or expr. by circuml., no one is born p., vitiis nemo sine nascitur, Hor. S. 1, 3, 68: man is believed to have been created p., *homo peccatis expers creatus esse creditur.
IV. Thorough, having all the characteristics of:
1. germānus (genuine, unmistakable): a p. master of this art, g. hujus artis magister, Cic. de Or. 2, 38, 160: I know I am a p. (regular) ass, scio me asinum g. esse, id. Att. 4, 5: the sense is even more adequately expr. by superl.: a p. Stoic, germanissimus Stoicus, id. Ac. 2. 43, 132.
2. absŏlūtus: p. blackness, abs. nigritia, Plin. 10, 22, 29.
3. mĕrus (sheer, undiluted, nothing but): to relate p. prodigies, m. monstra nuntiare, Cic. Att. 4, 7.
4. vērus: v.TRUE , REAL .
V. In grammar the p. tense, (tempus) praeteritum perfectum: Quint. 1, 6, 26. (N.B.--Not simply, perfectum; which may refer to the future perfect as well as the past.)
I. Complete in every part, lacking nothing:
1. perfectus: the universe is p. in every way, seeing it embraces all things, mundus, quoniam omnia complexus est, p. undique est, Cic. N. D. 2, 14, 38. more fully, perfectus expletusque omnibus suis numeris et partibus, ib. 2, 13, extr: the complete and p. orator orator plenus atque p., id. de Or. 1, 13, extr: nothing p. in every part, nihil ex omni parte p., id. Inv 2, 1, 3. Join: perfectus completusque, id. Or. 50, 168: perfectus et absolutus [et omnes numeros habens: a Stoical phr.], id. Off. 3, 3, 14.
2. absŏlūtus a book p. in every respect, liber omnibus numeris absolutus, Plin. Ep. 9, 38 cf. supr. (usu. found in connexion with some other word).
3. plēnus a p. number numerus p., Cic. Rep. 6, 12 cf. supr. (1) v
4. intĕger v
II. Characterized by the highest excellence:
1. perfectus nothing more p. in its kind than (our) actors, histrionibus nihil in suo genere perfectius, Cic. Or. 31, 109: p. in every kind of speech, in omni genere sermonis p., id. de Or 1, 9, 35: absolutely p., [summus et] perfectissimus, ib. 1, 3.
2. absŏlūtus (acc. to Kr. indicating especially, inner excellence, while perfectus points rather to outward completeness and finish): he painted a hero of most p. execution, pinxit heroa absolutissimi operis, Plin. 35, 10 36 § 74. Phr.: there is no one of them who is not p. in his art, nec quisquam eorum est, cui quicquam in arte sua deesse videatur, Cic. de Or. 3, 7, 26: no one absolutely p., nemo in quo nihil aut desideretur aut reprehendatur, Quint. 10, 2, 9 an absolutely p. artist, artifex adeo excellens ut nihil possit ultra, cf. Cic. Att. 15, 1, B (oratio scripta elegantissime sententiis, verbis; ut nihil possit ultra) a p. scholar, (homo) perfecte planeque eruditus, id. Br. 81, 282; absolute doctus, Suet. Gr. 4.
III. In moral sense, without faults or sin: perfectus: cf. Cic. Off. 1, 15, init., vivitur non cum perfectis hominibus: or expr. by circuml., no one is born p., vitiis nemo sine nascitur, Hor. S. 1, 3, 68: man is believed to have been created p., *homo peccatis expers creatus esse creditur.
IV. Thorough, having all the characteristics of:
1. germānus (genuine, unmistakable): a p. master of this art, g. hujus artis magister, Cic. de Or. 2, 38, 160: I know I am a p. (regular) ass, scio me asinum g. esse, id. Att. 4, 5: the sense is even more adequately expr. by superl.: a p. Stoic, germanissimus Stoicus, id. Ac. 2. 43, 132.
2. absŏlūtus: p. blackness, abs. nigritia, Plin. 10, 22, 29.
3. mĕrus (sheer, undiluted, nothing but): to relate p. prodigies, m. monstra nuntiare, Cic. Att. 4, 7.
4. vērus: v.
V. In grammar the p. tense, (tempus) praeteritum perfectum: Quint. 1, 6, 26. (N.B.--Not simply, perfectum; which may refer to the future perfect as well as the past.)
perfect (v.): perfĭcio, absolvo, 3: v. TO FINISH , COMPLETE . Phr.: to p. oneself in any branch of knowledge, *uberiore alicujus rei scientia se imbuere: perfectam absolutamque alicujus rei cognitionem assequi.
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I. Completeness:
1. absŏlūtio: virtue is defined as the perfection of reason, virtus rationis abs. definitur, Cic. Fin. 5, 14, 39. Join absolutio perfectioque, id. de Or. 1, 28, fin.
2. integrĭtas (outward or bodily entireness; whereas absolutio indicates inner ideal completeness): perfectness of body, int. corporis, id Fin. 5, 14, extr. (Or expr by verb vPERFECT , II., fin.)
II. Highest excellence:
1. perfectio: more adequately, optimi perfectio atque absolutio, Cic. Br. 36, 137: cf. supr. (I., 1).
2. absŏlūtio: v. supr.
3. expr. by summus, extrēmus, optĭmus: p. in all things to be aimed at rises by many degrees, extremum omnium appetendorum multis gradibus adscendit [ut ad summum perveniat], Cic. Fin. 5, 14, fin.
III. Last degree; esp. ironical: that is the p. of stupidity, *hoc est germanissimae stultitiae: v.PERFECT (IV.).
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I. Completeness:
1. absŏlūtio: virtue is defined as the perfection of reason, virtus rationis abs. definitur, Cic. Fin. 5, 14, 39. Join absolutio perfectioque, id. de Or. 1, 28, fin.
2. integrĭtas (outward or bodily entireness; whereas absolutio indicates inner ideal completeness): perfectness of body, int. corporis, id Fin. 5, 14, extr. (Or expr by verb v
II. Highest excellence:
1. perfectio: more adequately, optimi perfectio atque absolutio, Cic. Br. 36, 137: cf. supr. (I., 1).
2. absŏlūtio: v. supr.
3. expr. by summus, extrēmus, optĭmus: p. in all things to be aimed at rises by many degrees, extremum omnium appetendorum multis gradibus adscendit [ut ad summum perveniat], Cic. Fin. 5, 14, fin.
III. Last degree; esp. ironical: that is the p. of stupidity, *hoc est germanissimae stultitiae: v.
ὁλόκληρος
complete in all parts, entire, perfect
self-complete, perfect
εὐαπάρτιστος
well-finished, perfect
παντελειόω
consummate, make perfect
τελήεις
perfect, complete
τελειουργέω
perfect, complete
ἀειτελής
ever-perfect
ἐκτελής
brought to an end, perfect
complete in all parts, entire, perfect
appearing fewer than 50 times
αὐτοτέλειοςself-complete, perfect
εὐαπάρτιστος
well-finished, perfect
παντελειόω
consummate, make perfect
τελήεις
perfect, complete
τελειουργέω
perfect, complete
ἀειτελής
ever-perfect
ἐκτελής
brought to an end, perfect
consummo
to accomplish, complete, finish, perfect
perfectus
finished, complete, perfect, excellent, accomplished, exquisite
excolo
to cultivate, improve, ennoble, refine, perfect
complete, perfect
emendatus
correct, faultless, perfect
expletus
full, complete, perfect
perpolio
to polish thoroughly, finish, make perfect
to accomplish, complete, finish, perfect
perfectus
finished, complete, perfect, excellent, accomplished, exquisite
excolo
to cultivate, improve, ennoble, refine, perfect
appearing fewer than 50 times
completuscomplete, perfect
emendatus
correct, faultless, perfect
expletus
full, complete, perfect
perpolio
to polish thoroughly, finish, make perfect