Meaning of perfectionate | Babel Free

Definitions

To make perfect or complete; to perfect.

archaic, transitive

Examples

“[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.’”

“If interrupted, he remonstrated pathetically with his little maid. Every great artist, he said, had need⟳ of solitude to perfectionate his works.”

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