the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Perfect
King James Dictionary
or 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. Matthew 5
4. Manifesting perfection.
My strength is made perfect in weakness. 2 Corinthians 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, 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 Chronicles 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.
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Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Perfect'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/p/perfect.html.
