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. --Milton.
2. Well informed; certain; sure.
I am perfect that the Pannonains are now in arms.
--Shak.
3. (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.
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.