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perfecter|ˈpɜːfɪktə(r), pəˈfɛktə(r)|
Also 5 perfiter, (-our), -fyter, parfiter, -fyȝter.
[f. perfect v. + -er1: cf. perfector.]
One who or that which perfects, completes, or finishes; a consummator.
c1410Edw. Dk. York Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) Prol. (cf. ed. 1904 pp. 6–7), He shal se, whiche houndes commeth in the vanchace and the myddell and whiche ben perfitours [v.rr. parfiters, perfyters] after that that shall come. Ibid., To loke..which houndes ben vanchasours and perfiters [v.r. parfyȝters]. 1611Cotgr., Parfaiseur, a perfecter, accomplisher, finisher. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. 485 The Ancients..supposing this God [Saturn] to be the Giver and Perfecter of all happiness to men. 1740Warburton Div. Legat. II. iv. v. 277 The Inventor and Perfecter of the Arts of Life. 1881N. T. (R.V.) Heb. xii. 2 Looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith. |