perfect
    adj 1: being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish;
           "a perfect circle"; "a perfect reproduction"; "perfect
           happiness"; "perfect manners"; "a perfect specimen"; "a
           perfect day" [ant: imperfect]
    2: without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative)
       intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a
       consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross
       negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding
       mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter
       nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth" [syn: arrant(a),
       complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a),
       everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a),
       sodding(a), stark(a), staring(a), thoroughgoing(a),
       utter(a), unadulterated]
    3: precisely accurate or exact; "perfect timing"
    n 1: a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been
         completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect) [syn:
         perfective, perfective tense, perfect, perfect
         tense]
    v 1: make perfect or complete; "perfect your French in Paris!"
         [syn: perfect, hone]

Perfect \Per"fect\ (p[~e]r"f[e^]kt), a. [OE. parfit, OF. parfit,
   parfet, parfait, F. parfait, L. perfectus, p. p. of perficere
   to carry to the end, to perform, finish, perfect; per (see
   Per-) + facere to make, do. See Fact.]
   1. Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not
      defective nor redundant; having all the properties or
      qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw,
      fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure;
      sound; right; correct.
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            My strength is made perfect in weakness. --2 Cor.
                                                  xii. 9.
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            Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun. --Shak.
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            I fear I am not in my perfect mind.   --Shak.
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            O most entire perfect sacrifice!      --Keble.
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            God made thee perfect, not immutable. --Milton.
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   2. Well informed; certain; sure.
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            I am perfect that the Pannonians are now in arms.
                                                  --Shak.
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   3. (Bot.) Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; --
      said of a flower.
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   Perfect cadence (Mus.), a complete and satisfactory close
      in the 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; also called the perfective tense.
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   Syn: Finished; consummate; complete; entire; faultless;
        blameless; unblemished.
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Perfect \Per"fect\ (p[~e]r"f[e^]kt), n.
   The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.
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Perfect \Per"fect\ (p[~e]r*f[e^]kt" or p[~e]r"f[e^]kt; 277), v.
   t. [imp. & p. p. Perfected; p. pr. & vb. n. Perfecting.]
   [L. perfectus, p. p. of perficere. See Perfect, a.]
   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.
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         God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfect in us. --1
                                                  John iv. 12.
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         Inquire into the nature and properties of the things, .
         . . and thereby perfect our ideas of their distinct
         species.                                 --Locke.
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   Perfecting press (Print.), a press in which the printing on
      both sides of the paper is completed in one passage
      through the machine.
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   Syn: To finish; accomplish; complete; consummate.
        [1913 Webster] perfectibility

PERFECT. Something complete. 
     2. This term is applied to obligations in order to distinguish those 
which may be enforced by law, which are called perfect, from those which 
cannot be so enforced, which are said to be imperfect. Vide Imperfect; 
Obligations.