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† unˈperfectly, adv. Obs.
[un-1 11, 5 b.]
Imperfectly.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. viii. xxix. (Bodl. MS.), Whanne it [sc. light] comeþ into fatte mater it is inperfitelich [1495 vnperfyghtly] ifonge & schedeþ hym þerinne vnperfitelich and semeþ derke withoute. c1449Pecock Repr. v. xv. 564 It is no nede forto seie ther of eny thing vnperfitli and vnfully and therfore vnsauorili here. 1483Act 1 Rich. III, c. 8 Preamble, Wollen Clothes..unperfitly made and deceyvably wrought. 1552Latimer Serm. Lord's Prayer vi. (1562) 47 b, We beleue vnperfectly, we loue vnperfectly, we suffer vnperfectly..; and so al thinges that we do, ar done imperfectly. 1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. 579 Besydes this, we se here vnperfitly. 1639R. Gentilis Servita's Inquis. (1655) 20 Yet was it not put to execution according to the Emperours mind, but onely unperfectly. |