Crossword clues for perfected
perfected
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perfect \Per"fect\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Perfected; p. pr. & vb. n. Perfecting.] [L. perfectus, p. p. of perficere. See Perfect,
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] To make perfect; to finish or complete, so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to anything all that is requisite to its nature and kind.
God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfect in us.
--1 John iv. 12.Inquire into the nature and properties of the things, . . . and thereby perfect our ideas of their distinct species.
--Locke.Perfecting press (Print.), a press in which the printing on both sides of the paper is completed in one passage through the machine.
Syn: To finish; accomplish; complete; consummate.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: perfect)
WordNet
adj. (of plans, ideas, etc.) perfectly formed; "a graceful but not yet fully perfected literary style"
Usage examples of "perfected".
And in this work especially the universe would seem to be perfected, inasmuch as the last creature--viz.
For if man had not sinned, he would have been endowed with the light of Divine wisdom, and would have been perfected by God with the righteousness of justice in order to know and carry out everything needful.
But it is plain that for the perfection of operation the power needs to be perfected by a habit, whereas that a nature has being in its own suppositum does not take place by means of a habit.
For since the body is proportioned to the soul as matter to its proper form, it is not truly human flesh if it is not perfected by human, i.
Yet the image of a thing is required together with its presence, that it may be perfected by the presence of the thing, just as the image in the wax is perfected by the impression of the seal, and as the image of man is reflected in the mirror by his presence.
Hence it behooved the soul of Christ to be perfected by a knowledge, which would be its proper perfection.
And therefore the soul of Christ, which is a part of human nature, through a light participated from the Divine Nature, is perfected with the beatific knowledge whereby it sees God in essence.
Now it was necessary that even in this respect the soul of Christ should be filled with knowledge, not that the first fulness was insufficient for the human mind in itself, but that it behooved it to be also perfected with regard to phantasms.
Christ should be wholly perfected by having each of its powers reduced to act.
Since the human soul is midway between spiritual substances and corporeal things, it is perfected naturally in two ways.
Therefore also the Blessed Virgin was not sanctified until after all in her was perfected, viz.
Now, to sin is due the imperfection of the human race, which needs to be perfected by Him who cleanses from sin.
Wherefore those sacraments by which a man is perfected in himself, are placed before the sacrament of order, in which a man is made a perfecter of others.
For it is manifest that the sacrament of order is ordained to the consecration of the Eucharist: and the sacrament of Baptism to the reception of the Eucharist: while a man is perfected by Confirmation, so as not to fear to abstain from this sacrament.
For the sacrament is not perfected by the righteousness of the minister or of the recipient of Baptism, but by the power of God.