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.

I am perfect that the Pannonains are now in arms. Shak.

Perfect cadence (Mus.), a complete and satisfactory close in 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.

God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfect in us. 1 John iv. 12.

Inquire into the nature and properties of the things, . . . and thereby perfect our ideas of their distinct species. Locke.

Perfecting press (Print.), a press in which the printing on both sides of the paper is completed in one passage through the machine.

Syn. -- To finish; accomplish; complete; consummate.