| 单词 |
perficient |
| 释义 |
perficient, a. (n.) rare.|pəˈfɪʃənt|
[ad. L. perficient-em, pr. pple. of perficĕre to complete, finish, accomplish (see perfect a.).]
A. adj. That accomplishes or achieves something; effectual, actual.
1659H. L'Estrange Alliance Div. Off. 269 The essential and perficient Act of Confirmation, viz. Imposition of Hands. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. xviii. 481 The king being the sole founder of all civil corporations, and the endower the perficient founder of all eleemosynary ones, the right of visitation of the former results..to the king; and of the latter to the patron or endower. 1888Science XII. 3/1 The perficient objection [to pronouncing grace] was probably the inconvenience to the service of the repast.
B. n. One who perfects or completes.
1641H. L'Estrange God's Sabbath 11 Rest being..The perfection of the perficient and of the thing perfected. 1662Evelyn Chalcogr. 106 Certain it is that practise and experience was its Nurse and perficient.
[Webster 1828 (copied by later dicts.) gives the sense ‘One who endows a charity’; app. founded upon quot. 1765 in A; but for this, as a n., there appears to be no evidence.] |
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