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perˈfectionate, v. Now rare.
[prob. f. med. or mod.L. *perfectiōnāre: cf. OIt. perfettionare (Florio 1598), F. perfectionner (Cotgr. 1611); or (in 16th c. writers) after the Fr.: see perfection v. and -ate3.]
trans. To bring to perfection; to make perfect or complete; to perfect; † to make (a person) perfect in (a study, etc.) (obs.).
1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) Oo iij/1 Y⊇ greatnes of my Priesthode:..begon in Melchisedech:.. continued in the children of Aaron: perfectionated in Christ. 1598Barret Theor. Warres i. ii. 13 Histories..sharpen and perfectionate the wits of man. 1634W. Tirwhyt tr. Balzac's Lett. 71 To augment the merit of our faith, and the more to perfectionate our Piety. 1695Dryden Parall. Poetry & Paint. Ess. (Ker) II. 122 In this manner..painters and sculptors..perfectionate the idea, and advance their art even above nature itself. 1755Johnson, Perfectionate... This is a word proposed by Dryden, but not received nor worthy of reception. 1784J. Barry in Lect. Paint. i. (1848) 66 Laws..for perfectionating human nature. 1849Thackeray Pendennis xxiii, Every great artist..has need of solitude to perfectionate his works. 1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. iv. 102.
Hence perˈfectionated ppl. a., perˈfectionating vbl. n. and ppl. a.; also perˈfectionator, one who makes perfect.
1695Dryden tr. Du Fresnoy's Art Paint., Observ. §24 He has..founded an Academy for the Progress and Perfectionating of Painting. 1795tr. Mercier's Fragm. Pol. & Hist. I. 183 Nature..forms man precisely for a perfectionated Society. 1818Blackw. Mag. III. 23 Poetry..is also a selective and perfectionating art. 1839New Monthly Mag. LVI. 381 Man..is but a more complicated zoophyte, a perfectionated stomach. a1849H. Coleridge Ess. (1851) II. 119 Pope was not the founder, but head scholar and perfectionator of a school. 1867J. Legge Confucius (1877) 28 A system of social perfectionating. |