perfectio

The comparatively recentTLL article on the Latin word perfectio, – ōnis covers four columns of dense 5-point type spreading over three enormous pages, carefully documenting two principal species of meaning (absolvendo and consummendo, but let’s not go there); four groups of sub-definition; eight narrower senses, which may be further divided into nine even more specific shades of meaning.

Archive 2009-04-01 2009

In istis tribus sacramentis manifeste ostenditur perfectio totius iusticie paruulorum que eis contingebat ex fide offerencium ut in mat [theum] et mar [cum].

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

Pulchritudo est perfectio compositi ex congruente ordine, mensura et ratione partium consurgens, et venustas inde prodiens gratia dicitur et res omnes pulchrae gratiosae.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

According to [967] Aristotle, the soul is defined to be ἐντελέχεια, perfectio et actus primus corporis organici, vitam habentis in potentia: the perfection or first act of an organical body, having power of life, which most

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

'Motion' in the Aristotelian sense involves a point from which the change begins and a point at which it is completed; this completion is just called perfection, which is why in certain contexts 'perfectio' can often be translated as 'completion'.

Pure Act 2006

Included in the latter are the concepts of constructio (the syntactic joining of one word to another), congruitas (the proper formation of such constructions), and perfectio (the proper formation of complete expressions).

Thomas of Erfurt Zupko, Jack 2006

[353] 'Magni doctores scholastici, si non sint spirituales, vel omni rerum spiritualium experientia careant, non solent esse magistri spirituales idonei -- nam theologia scholastica est perfectio intellectus; mystica, perfectio intellectus et voluntatis: unde bonus theologus scholasticus potest esse malus theologus mysticus.

The Interior Castle or The Mansions 1921

As St. Bernard says: "An unflagging zeal for advancing and a continual struggle for perfection is itself perfection" (Indefessus proficiendi studium et iugis conatus ad perfectionem, perfectio reputatur; "Ep. ccliv ad Abbatem Guarinum").

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

* Haec est hominis in vita sublimior perfectio ita uniri Deo ut tota anima cum omnibus potentiis suis et viribus in Deum collecta unus spiritus fiat cum eo, nihil meminerit nisi Deum, nihil sentiat et intelligat nisi Deum.

The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910

"Haec est hominis in vita sublimior perfectio ita uniri Deo ut tota anima cum omnibus potentiis suis et viribus in Deum collecta unus spiritus fiat cum eo, nihil meminerit nisi Deum, nihil sentiat et intelligat nisi Deum."

The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910