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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

allperfect en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ɔːlˈpɜː.fɪkt/ (UK)
  • /ɔːlˈpɝ.fɪkt/ (US)
  • /ɔːlˈpɜː.fɛkt/ (UK)

Etymology

From all- + perfect.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, not-comparable) Wholly perfect.
    • For such is the natural order of things that externally proceeding should be suspended from inward energy, the whole world from the allperfect monad of ideas, and the parts of the visible universe from monads which are separated from each other. 1804, Maximus (of Tyre), The Dissertations of Maximus Tyrius, Volume 1, C. Whittingham, page 228:
    • Oh! could I paint his figure as I see it now, still present to my transported imagination! a whole length of an allperfect, manly beauty in full view. 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
    • So delicate and difficult are the questions here involved, that we could come to no solution of them had we not an allperfect teaching in regard to them, made luminous by an allperfect exaniple^([sic]); had not the Church Christ to teach her, and Christ to go before her, and apply in his own marvellous life his own matchless instructions. 1907, The Lutheran Church Review, Volume 26, Alumni Association of the Lutheran Theological Seminary, →ISBN, page 228:

Forms

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