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
n. (context printing English) The process of printing on both sides of the print material during its single pass through the printing press. vb. (present participle of perfect English)
Usage examples of "perfecting".
In perfecting this alterative compound, and likewise other standard preparations of medicine, we have made an outlay of many thousand dollars for chemical apparatus, and special machinery by the aid of which these remedies have been brought to their present perfection.
It is for this reason that neither time nor pains have been spared in perfecting an alterative, tonic, nutritive, restorative, and antiseptic compound, to which Dr.
Therefore in the state of innocence man needed no sacraments, whether as remedies against sin or as means of perfecting the soul.
And perfecting, as regards power, which is, as it were, a formal perfection, belongs to Confirmation: while, as regards the attainment of the end, it belongs to the Eucharist.
Secondly, He works through ministers, by the outward application of the sacraments: and in this way His work consists in perfecting what was begun outwardly.
But the form of this sacrament is pronounced as if Christ were speaking in person, so that it is given to be understood that the minister does nothing in perfecting this sacrament, except to pronounce the words of Christ.
The sacrament of Baptism is directly ordained for the remission of punishment and guilt: not so the Eucharist, because Baptism is given to man as dying with Christ, whereas the Eucharist is given as by way of nourishing and perfecting him through Christ.
Out of red blood, blood-vessels are formed, and from the incipient development of the heart follow faint lines of arteries, and the engineers of nutrition survey a circulatory system, perfecting the vascular connections by supplementing the arteries with a complete net-work of veins and capillaries.
The grateful manifestations which we have received from this class of sufferers have afforded us one of the greatest pleasures of our lives, and have alone been a rich remuneration for the diligent study and arduous labors devoted to the investigation of these diseases and to the perfecting of our peculiar and successful methods of treating them.
We do not make these statements in a spirit of vain boastfulness, but having devoted many years to improving and perfecting surgical appliances and apparatus, and having had practical experience in the successful treatment of thousands of cases, we do say that our manner of treatment is original and employed only by us.
The Sun and Moon of the Alchemists concur in perfecting and giving stability to the Philosophal Stone.
It concludes that the final aim of Nature is but the infinite perfecting of her material in infinite transformations ever repeating the same old series.
Latterly, improved instruments greatly assist the practitioner of medicine in perfecting this art.
After the natural virtues, then, Wisdom and, so the perfecting of the moral nature.
Sprung, in other words, from the Intellectual-Principle, Soul is intellective, but with an intellection operation by the method of reasonings: for its perfecting it must look to that Divine Mind, which may be thought of as a father watching over the development of his child born imperfect in comparison with himself.