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perˈfectionize, v. rare.
[See -ize.]
trans. To bring to perfection; to perfectionate, perfect.
1839M. W. Shelley Notes Shelley's Prometh. Unb. S.'s Wks. 1882 I. p. lxv, That man could be so perfectionized as to be able to expel evil from his own nature..was the cardinal point of his system. 1843Tait's Mag. X. 617 Steam allows us leisure to examine into old abuses, and perfectionize new reforms. 1846H. W. Torrens Rem. Milit. Hist. 374 We must..endeavour to perfectionize our military system.
Hence perˈfectioˌnizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; also perˈfectionizement, perˈfectionizer.
1821Tales Landlord New Ser. III. Witch Glas Llyn 18 From Italy and Greece he had brought with him an unquenchable thirst for perfectionizing. 1841Blackw. Mag. L. 481 Ye accomplishment perfectionizers..this is the fate that awaits your daughters at last. 1844Ibid. LV. 200 The theories of the perfectionizement of the fair sex now issuing from the press. 1851Woodward Mollusca 4 The perfectionizing of the functions of nutrition and reproduction. |