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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of perfect.

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perfect +‎ -eth

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Examples

  • Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth, and embaseth it.

    The Essays 2007

  • In arts mechanical the first device comes shortest and time addeth and perfecteth.

    Valerius Terminus: of the interpretation of Nature 2003

  • For hence it hath come, that in arts mechanical the first deviser comes shortest, and time addeth and perfecteth; but in sciences the first author goeth furthest, and time leeseth and corrupteth.

    The Advancement of Learning 2003

  • And this you may demonstrate by writing their letters one over the other, and then dividing them by horizontal and perpendicular lines, thus Love perfecteth fear, and fear perfecteth love.

    Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various

  • But the deep redness of the Sun perfecteth the work of Sulphur, which is called the Sperm of the male, the fire of the Stone, the King's Crown, and the Son of Sol, wherein the first labour of the workman resteth.

    Alchemy: Ancient and Modern 1922

  • Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.

    X. Of Love 1909

  • P: And thou seest the hills thou deemest solid flying with the flight of clouds: the doing of Allah Who perfecteth all things.

    Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902

  • 'Weel, be ye or no, ye're ane o' the babes in wha's mooth he perfecteth praise! '

    Heather and Snow George MacDonald 1864

  • Steel sharpens steel; so one glory perfecteth another: and I am of belief, that they who are glorious, must have been factious.

    The Buccaneer A Tale S. C. Hall 1840

  • But Christ takes away sin; cleanses us from it, and so perfecteth for ever them that are sanctified.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

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