Definition of Perfectible

1. Adjective. Capable of becoming or being made perfect.

Similar to: Perfect
Derivative terms: Perfect, Perfectibility

Definition of Perfectible

1. a. Capable of becoming, or being made, perfect.

Definition of Perfectible

1. Adjective. Able to be perfected; capable of perfection ¹

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Definition of Perfectible

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Perfectible

perfect unisons
perfecta
perfectability
perfectas
perfected
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perfecters
perfectest
perfecti
perfectibilian
perfectibilians
perfectibilist
perfectibilists
perfectibilities
perfectibility
perfectible (current term)
perfecting
perfecting press
perfecting presses
perfection
perfectional
perfectionate
perfectionated
perfectionates
perfectionating
perfectionism
perfectionisms
perfectionist
perfectionistic
perfectionists

Literary usage of Perfectible

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Philosophia Ultima: Or, Science of the Sciences by Charles Woodruff Shields (1888)
"THE FINAL PHILOSOPHY OR THEORY OF perfectible SCIENCE. WE have seen that neither the Positive Philosophy nor the Absolute Philosophy can furnish an ..."

2. Review of Theology & Philosophy edited by Allan Menzies (1906)
"The Final Philosophy, or theory of perfectible science as concurring with revelation (346-375). Chapter v. Philosophia Ultima, or project of the perfected ..."

3. On the Functions of the Brain and of Each of Its Parts: With Observations on by Franz Josef Gall (1835)
"How far is the Human Species perfectible ? The question then, is no longer, whether the human species may lose or acquire any quality or faculty whatever; ..."

4. Catalogue of the Weston Town Library: 1896 by Weston Public Library (Mass.) (1896)
"Final philosophy : or, system of perfectible knowledge issuing SHIELDS,George O., л/. Big game of North America. 74.24 from the harmony of science and ..."

5. Ethics: Or, Moral Philosophy by Walter Henry Hill (1884)
"Thirdly; man, unlike the irrational animal, is perfectible, not only as an individual, ... This fact that the human species is perfectible because man is a ..."

6. The Metaphysics of the School by Thomas Harper (1884)
"It might perhaps be objected, that in such case it would be accidentally but not substantially perfectible. Such an explanation, however, ..."

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