Perfectionate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Perfectionate is a verb meaning (transitive, now rare) To make perfect or complete; to perfect.
Meaning
(transitive, now rare) To make perfect or complete; to perfect.
Example Sentences
If interrupted, he remonstrated pathetically with his little maid. Every great artist, he said, had need of solitude to perfectionate his works.
[P]ainters and sculptors, cjoosing the most elegant natural beauties, perfectionate the idea, and advance their art above Nature itself in her individual productions; which is the utmost mastery of human performance.
‘I agree with you,’ replied the stranger; ‘we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves—such a friend ought to be—do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures.’
Word Forms
- perfectionates
- perfectionating
- perfectionated
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include perfection, perfectionize, perfect, consummate, self-perfect, perfectivize.
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