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Definition of Perfects
1. perfect [v] - See also: perfect
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perfects
Literary usage of Perfects
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles of Sound and Inflexion as Illustrated in the Greek and Latin by John Edward King, Christopher Cookson (1888)
"perfects We now come to those perfects which are formed by internal ... (i) Re-
Roots of the ^-series originally showed ö in the singular perfects. ..."
2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Loud vaunts Achilles ; but his words with deeds He crowns not; one perchance, or
here or there, He perfects, but drops others, shorn of act. ..."
3. A Short Manual of Comparative Philology for Classical Students by Peter Giles (1901)
"The Latin perfects in -m and -ul stand by themselves. The conjecture of Schulze*
j^,, perfects that the -w-forms arose from a combina- m"" a"d ..."
4. A Grammar of Attic and Ionic Greek by Frank Cole Babbitt (1902)
"A few perfects middle that have a present meaning form their subjunctive and ...
But two perfects with present meaning, in frequent use, have developed a ..."
5. The Irregular Verbs of Attic Prose: Their Forms, Prominent Meanings, and by Addison Hogue (1889)
"An initial vowel is lengthened, so that the aorists and perfects begin alike.
... while the perfects retain it in all the moods, so that the infinitives ..."
6. Principia Latina: A first Latin course, comprehending grammar, delectus, and by William George Smith, Henry Drisler (1883)
"The Present-perfects and the ... amo, amavi, am* turn, amare, to love. The following
are exceptions: II. THE SECOND CONJUGATION. The Present-perfects and ..."
7. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"offering up of the body of Jesus once for all the offerings, he perfects forever,
all them that are sanctified. So here is the prophet to open, ..."
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