Perfect

pėr′fekt, adj. done thoroughly or completely: completed: without blemish, fault, or error: having neither too much nor too little: entire, very great: in the highest degree: po e ing every moral excellence: completely skilled or acquainted: ( gram. ) expre ing an act completed: ( bot. ) having both stamens and pistils, hermaphrodite.— v.t. (or per-fekt′) to make perfect: to finish: to teach fully, to make fully skilled in anything.— ns. Perfectā′tion ( rare ); Per′fecter ; Perfect′i , a body of Catharists in the 12th and 13th centuries, of very strict lives; Perfectibil′ity , quality of being made perfect.— adj. Perfect′ible , that may be made perfect.— ns. Perfec′tion , state of being perfect: a perfect quality or acquirement: the highest state or degree; Perfec′tionism (or Perfectibil′ity ), the belief that man in a state of grace may attain to a relative perfection or a state of living without sin in this life; Perfec′tionist , one who pretends to be perfect: one who thinks that moral perfection can be attained in this life: one of the Bible Communists or Free-lovers, a small American sect founded by J. H. Noyes (1811-86), which settled at Oneida in 1848, holding that the gospel if accepted secures freedom from sin.— adj. Perfect′ive , tending to make perfect.— advs. Perfect′ively , Per′fectly , in a perfect manner: completely: exactly: without fault.— n. Per′fectne , state or quality of being perfect: completene : perfection: consummate excellence.— Perfect insect , the imago or completely developed form of an insect; Perfect metals (see Metal ); Perfect number , a number equal to the sum of all its divisors, the number itself of course excepted, as 6 = 1 + 2 + 3, 28 = 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14. [Fr.,—L. perfect us , pa.p. of perficĕre — per , thoroughly, facĕre , to do.]