单词 | perfectionate |
释义 | perfectionatev. Now rare. transitive. To bring to perfection; to make perfect or complete; to perfect; to make (a person) perfect in (a study, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > completing > complete (an action or piece of work) [verb (transitive)] to make an endc893 afilleOE endc975 fullOE full-doOE full-workOE fullendOE fullfremeOE full-forthlOE fillc1175 fulfilc1300 complec1315 asum1340 full-make1340 performa1382 finisha1400 accomplishc1405 cheve1426 upwindc1440 perfurnish?c1450 sumc1450 perimplish1468 explete?a1475 fullcome1477 consume1483 consomme1489 perimplenish1499 perfect1512 perfinish1523 complete1530 consummate1530 do1549 to run out1553 perfectionate1570 win1573 outwork1590 to bring about1598 exedifya1617 to do up1654 ratifyc1720 ultimate1849 terminate1857 the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > perfection > [verb (transitive)] perfectc1440 perfectionate1570 consummate1581 perfection1651 perfectionize1805 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. sig. OO iij/1 Ye greatnes of my Priesthode..begon in Melchisedech:..continued in the children of Aaron: perfectionated in Christ. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres i. 13 Histories..sharpen and perfectionate the wits of man. 1634 W. Tirwhyt tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 71 To augment the merit of our faith, and the more to perfectionate our Piety. 1695 J. Dryden in tr. C. A. Du Fresnoy De Arte Graphica Pref. p. xi In this manner..Painters and Sculptours..perfectionate the Idea, and advance their Art, even above Nature it self. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Perfectionate... This is a word proposed by Dryden, but not received nor worthy of reception. a1806 J. Barry in R. N. Wornum Lect. on Painting (1848) 66 Laws..for perfectionating human nature. 1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxiii. 218 Every great artist..had need of solitude to perfectionate his works. 1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters iv. 102 All this dove-tailing of contingencies, requisite to perfectionate these several characters, was all foreseen. 1993 Y. H. B. Løyning et al. in D. I. Mostofsky & Y. Løyning Neurobehavioral Treatm. of Epilepsy x. 262 The screening method must be perfectionated. Derivatives perˈfectionating n. and adj. (a) n. the action of perfectionate v.; an instance of this; (b) adj. that makes or becomes perfect. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > perfection > [noun] > bringing to perfection perfectinga1513 perfectioning1548 sublimation1599 perfectionating1695 perfectionizing1808 perfectionation1812 perfectionment1827 perfectation1832 perfectionizement1844 sublimification1886 the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > perfection > [adjective] > bringing to perfection perfective1590 teleiotical1601 completing1656 perfectory1693 perfectionating1818 1695 J. Dryden tr. R. de Piles in tr. C. A. Du Fresnoy De Arte Graphica 83 He has..founded an Academy for the Progress and Perfectionating of Painting. 1795 S. Martin Poet. Epist. 12 The self-perfectionating common-weal. 1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 23/1 Poetry..is also a selective and perfectionating art. 1867 J. Legge Life Confucius (1877) 28 A system of social perfectionating. perˈfectionator n. rare a person who makes something perfect. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > perfection > [noun] > one who or that which perfects perfector1578 sublimera1631 finish1779 perfectionizer1841 perfectionatora1849 perfectioner1879 a1849 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) II. 119 Pope was not the founder, but head scholar and perfectionator of a school. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1570 |
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