单词 | perfecter |
释义 | perfectern. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > completing > [noun] > one who completes an action or process enderc1384 perfecterc1425 fulfillerc1434 finisher1526 sealer1615 crownera1625 perficient1641 completer1701 perfector1836 c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 6–7 He shal se whiche houndes commeþ in þe vannchace and in þe middel and which bene parfitours [v.r. perfitours], after that þei shuld come. c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 6–7 (MED) Wiþ houndes bene vanchasours and parfiters [v.r. perfiters]. b. gen. A person who or thing which perfects or completes something. ΚΠ 1535 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (rev. ed.) iv. vii. f. xxix/2 Bloode is the seate of the soule, and conteyneth hit: & is the perfecter of yongth. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Parfaiseur, a perfecter, accomplisher, finisher. 1645 D. North Forest of Varieties 83 They [sc. Religion, Policie, Arts] should bee the perfecters of nature, but distorted and abused, prove..her deformitie. 1678 R. Cudworth tr. Dionysius of Halicarnassus in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 485 The Ancients..supposing this God to be the Giver and Perfecter of all happiness to men. 1741 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses II. iv. v. 277 The Inventor and Perfecter of the Arts of Life. 1833 E. B. Barrett tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound in Prometheus & Misc. Poems 32 Not so, doth Fate, the Perfecter, Perform these things. 1881 Bible (R.V.) Heb. xii. 2 Looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith. 1906 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 3 98 Mr Franklin has learned to his joy that society is the author and perfecter of our being. 1984 Time (Nexis) 23 July 86 Carl Hubbell.., perfecter of the screwball, tossed out the first ball for the All-Star game. 2. Printing. = perfecting machine n. at perfecting n. Compounds. Cf. perfector n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > [noun] > printing on both sides perfecting machine1847 perfecting press1858 perfecter1899 perfector1907 1899 J. Southward Mod. Printing III. xii. 124 (caption) Dawsons' Patent Fast Gripper Perfecter. 1951 S. Jennett Making of Bks. vii. 101 These machines are in effect two presses combined in one, printing one side of the sheet first and the other side immediately afterwards. They are called perfecters. 2002 Printing World (Nexis) 9 Sept. 34 Beginning printing with a Heidelberg Speedmaster six-colour sheetfed offset perfecter. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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