IMPERFECT Copy link • IMPERFECTmancus: non integer (no longer or not yet complete): non perfectus (not completed): imperfectus (Quint.; especially in the poets = “not completed;” in Sen. = “imperfect”): inchoatus (begun only, and not carried on to a more perfect state). (The words are found in this connection and order.) mancus quodammodo et inchoatus (Cic., Off., 1, 43, 173): suis numeris non absolutus (not perfect in all its parts and proportions): non commodus (not good of its kind): vitiosus (faulty): adumbratus (but lightly sketched; not having received full body or substance; opinio, intelligentia): in quo multa desiderantur. To leave anything imperfect, inchoatum relinquere aliquid. An imperfect book, *liber, in quo plagulae quaedam desunt: imperfect manner [Vid: IMPERFECTLY]. The imperfect (in grammar), tempus imperfectum.