PERFORM Copy link • PERFORMTo achieve, accomplish, conficere (to bring to an end, so that the labor is over; to finish, without reference to the production of a perfect work, itinera, mandata conficiuntur, non perficiuntur nec absolvuntur, Diod.): efficere, ad effectum adducere (to bring to actual existence): perficere (to carry through to the end; to make anything perfect; opposed to inchoare, to begin): absolvere (to finish off, so that no more remains to be done; to make complete; opposed to inchoare, instituere). (The words are found in this connection and order.) absolvere ac (et) perficere: peragere (to carry a business through): exsequi, persequi (to follow up till it is done; especially of things done by rule or direction, officium, mandata): adipisci, assequi (the former dwelling more on the object achieved; the latter on the persevering exertions by which it was achieved): ad finem adducere (to bring anything to its intended end; to complete): patrare (of important actions publicly performed; an old and solemn word that had probably a religious meaning at first; strengthened perpetrare): sometimes facere alone (opposed to cogitare). To be able to perform anything, *parem esse alicui rei exsequendae. To perform one’s promises [Vid: PROMISES]. To do, act, facere, agere. [SYN. in ACT.] To act a part on the stage, or in life, agere aliquem or alicujus partes; alicujus personam tueri (not alicujus personam agere): simulare aliquem, or with accusative and infinitive (to pretend to be anybody): ☞ ludere aliquem is unclassical; exhibere aliquem, not Latin: to perform a play, fabulam agere (not fabulam docere, which is said of the author only). To forbid the players to perform, histrionibus scenam interdicere (Suet.): the players will not perform to-night, *histriones hodie in scenam non prodibunt.