perficient
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pə(ɹ)ˈfɪʃənt/
- Rhymes: -ɪʃənt
Noun
perficient (plural perficients)
- One who performs or perfects a work.
- One who endows a charity.
Adjective
perficient (comparative more perficient, superlative most perficient)
- Making or doing thoroughly; efficient; effectual.
- 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, OCLC 65350522:
- And , in general , the king being the sole founder of all civil corporations , and the endower the perficient founder of all eleemosynary ones
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for perficient in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Latin
Verb
perficient
- third-person plural future active indicative of perficiō