The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perfect \Per"fect\, a. [OE. parfit, OF. parfit, parfet, parfait, F. parfait, L. perfectus, p. p. of perficere to carry to the end, to perform, finish, perfect; per (see Per-) + facere to make, do. See Fact.]
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Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct.
My strength is made perfect in weakness.
--2 Cor. xii. 9.Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun.
--Shak.I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
--Shak.O most entire perfect sacrifice!
--Keble.God made thee perfect, not immutable.
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Well informed; certain; sure.
I am perfect that the Pannonains are now in arms.
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(Bot.) Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower.
Perfect cadence (Mus.), a complete and satisfactory close in harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant.
Perfect chord (Mus.), a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly coalescent and agreeable to the ear, as the unison, octave, fifth, and fourth; a perfect consonance; a common chord in its original position of keynote, third, fifth, and octave.
Perfect number (Arith.), a number equal to the sum of all its divisors; as, 28, whose aliquot parts, or divisors, are 14, 7, 4, 2, 1. See Abundant number, under Abundant.
--Brande & C.Perfect tense (Gram.), a tense which expresses an act or state completed.
Syn: Finished; consummate; complete; entire; faultless; blameless; unblemished.
Usage examples of "perfect cadence".
The line immediately closed and, in perfect cadence, resumed the march inward toward the puzzled djinns.
The rhythm of his feet assumed a perfect cadence, and Nick fell into his step, matching him stride for stride.
Their limbs moved in perfect cadence, as though each man was half of some marvelous, rhythmic machine.
In the silence, there was a rustling as the Bladesmen, in perfect cadence, opened a square space in the centre of the Hall.
They marched in slow and perfect cadence, with their boots making a timed thumping sound as they struck the soil.
They flap into a circling formation above the wheelbarrow, calling together in perfect cadence as they follow all the way through the pasture to the swamp at the other end of the seventy acres.
I watched him stand up and move the chair back out of his way, and I saw his hands fly up, and I knew that he was speaking Hebrew, and then the Chaldean, yes, he knew that too, and he spoke it with perfect cadence, but I didn't hear the words.
Bazil began to snore, his huge belly rising and falling in perfect cadence.
Waiting for the completion of each set always made him fidgetty: it was like straining an ear to catch the note necessary for a perfect cadence.