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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• imperfect:
    1. I. Not finished:
      1. 1. inchŏātus (begun, but not finished): the perfect is preferred to the i., perfecta inchoatis anteferuntur, Cic. Top. 18, 69: to leave a thing i., rem inc. relinquere, Cic. N. D. 1, 20, 56: v. unfinished.
      2. 2. imperfectus: cf. Cic. Tim. 4, init., imperfectum, nec absoluto simile: Virg.: Quint.
    2. II. Defective:
      1. 1. mancus (strictly, crippled: hence, wanting some important element): they thought virtue would be i. without some appendage, m. fore putaverunt sine aliqua accessione virtutem, Cic. Fin. 3, 9, 30. Join: mancus et inchoatus, Cic. Off. 1, 43, 153.
      2. 2. imperfectus: Join: rudis et imperfectus (incomplete and unfinished), Quint. 3, 1, 7: cf. Cic. Tim. 4, init.
      3. 3. rŭdis, e (in a rough state; unwrought): v. unfinished.
      4. 4. curtus (lit. clipped, mutilated): there is ever something lacking in our i. happiness, curtae nescio quid semper abest rei, Hor. Od. 3, 24, 64: Cic. introduces the epith. by quasi, Fin. 4, 14, 36, where the antith. is perfectus atque plenus: Lact.
    3. III. Marked by faults and vices: mendōsus: Hor. S. 1, 6, 6: Cic.: v. faulty. Phr.: human nature is i., *natura hominum vitiorum expers non est; vitiis nemo sine nascitur, Hor. S. 1, 3, 68.
    4. IV. In grammar, the i. tense, imperfectum tempus: Macr.: Char.: less freq. tempus inchoativum, Diom.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• IMPERFECT
  • mancus: 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.