Per″fect (pẽr″fĕkt), a. [OE. parfit, OF. parfit, parfet, parfait, F. parfait, L. perfectus, p. p. of perficere to carry to the end, to perform, finish, perfect; per (see Per-) + facere to make, do. See Fact.] 1. Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct.
My strength is made perfect in weakness. 2 Cor. xii. 9.
Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun. Shak.
I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Shak.
O most entire perfect sacrifice! Keble.
God made thee perfect, not immutable. Milton.
2. Well informed; certain; sure.
I am perfect that the Pannonians are now in arms. Shak.
3. (Bot.) Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; — said of a flower.
Perfect cadence(Mus.), a complete and satisfactory close in the harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant. — Perfect chord(Mus.), a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly coalescent and agreeable to the ear, as the unison, octave, fifth, and fourth; a perfect consonance; a common chord in its original position of keynote, third, fifth, and octave. — Perfect number(Arith.), a number equal to the sum of all its divisors; as, 28, whose aliquot parts, or divisors, are 14, 7, 4, 2, 1. See Abundant number, under Abundant. Brande & C. — Perfect tense(Gram.), a tense which expresses an act or state completed.
Syn. — Finished; consummate; complete; entire; faultless; blameless; unblemished.