ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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.’

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include perfection, perfectionize, perfect, consummate, self-perfect, perfectivize.

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