KJV Dictionary Definition: perfect

perfect

PER'FECT, a. L. perfectus, perficio, to complete; per and facio, to do or make through, to carry to the end.

1. Finished; complete; consummate; not defective; having all that is requisite to its nature and kind; as a perfect statue; a perfect likeness; a perfect work; a perfect system.

As full, as perfect in a hair as heart.

2. Fully informed; completely skilled; as men perfect in the use of arms; perfect in discipline.

3. Complete in moral excellencies.

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect. Matt.5.

4. Manifesting perfection.

My strength is made perfect in weakness. 2 Cor.12.

Perfect chord,in music, a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly coalescent and agreeable to the ear, as the fifth and the octave; a perfect consonance.

A perfect flower, in botany, has both stamen and pistil, or at least another and stigma.

Perfect tense, in grammar, the preterit tense; a tense which expresses an act completed.

PER'FECT, v.t. L. perfectus, perficio. To finish or complete so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to any thing all that is requisite to its nature and kind; as, to perfect a picture or statue. 2 Chron.8.

-Inquire into the nature and properties of things, and thereby perfect our ideas of distinct species.

If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. 1 John 4.

1. To instruct fully; to make fully skillful; as, to perfect one's self in the rules of music or architecture; to perfect soldiers in discipline.

perfected

PER'FECTED, pp. Finished; completed.

perfecter

PER'FECTER, n. One that makes perfect.

perfectibility

PERFECTIBIL'ITY, n. from perfectible.

The capacity of becoming or being made perfect.

perfectible

PERFECT'IBLE, a. Capable of becoming or being made perfect, or of arriving at the utmost perfection of the species.

perfecting

PER'FECTING, ppr. Finishing; completing; consummating.

perfection

PERFEC'TION, n. L. perfectio. The state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing requisite is wanting; as perfection in an art or science; perfection in a system of morals.

1. Physical perfection, is when a natural object has all its powers, faculties or qualities entire and in full vigor, and all its parts in due proportion.

2. Metaphysical or transcendental perfection, is the possession of all the essential attributes or all the parts necessary to the integrity of a substance. This is absolute,where all defect is precluded, such as the perfection of God; or according to its kind, as in created things.

3. Moral perfection, is the complete possession of all moral excellence, as in the Supreme Being; or the possession of such moral qualities and virtues as a thing is capable of.

4. A quality, endowment or acquirement completely excellent, or of great worth.

In this sense, the word has a plural.

What tongue can her perfections tell?

5. An inherent or essential attribute of supreme or infinite excellence; or one perfect in its kind; as the perfections of God. The infinite power, holiness,justice, benevolence and wisdom of God are denominated his perfections.

6. Exactness; as, to imitate a model to perfection.

perfectional

PERFEC'TIONAL, a. Made complete.

perfective

PERFECT'IVE, a. Conducing to make perfect or bring to perfection; followed by of.

Praise and adoration are actions perfective of the soul.

perfectively

PERFECT'IVELY, adv. In a manner that brings to perfection.

perfectness

PER'FECTNESS, n. Completeness; consummate excellence; perfection.

1. 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.3.

2. Accurate skill.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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