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

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S&H Smith & Hall (2)
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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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• perfect (adj.):
    1. I. Complete in every part, lacking nothing:
      1. 1. perfectus: the universe is p. in every way, seeing it embraces all things, mundus, quoniam omnia complexus est, p. undique est, Cic. N. D. 2, 14, 38. more fully, perfectus expletusque omnibus suis numeris et partibus, ib. 2, 13, extr.: the complete and p. orator, orator plenus atque p., id. de Or. 1, 13, extr.: nothing p. in every part, nihil ex omni parte p., id. Inv. 2, 1, 3. Join: perfectus completusque, id. Or. 50, 168: perfectus et absolutus [et omnes numeros habens: a Stoical phr.], id. Off. 3, 3, 14.
      2. 2. absŏlūtus: a book p. in every respect, liber omnibus numeris absolutus, Plin. Ep. 9, 38: cf. supr. (usu. found in connexion with some other word).
      3. 3. plēnus: a p. number, numerus p., Cic. Rep. 6, 12: cf. supr. (1): v. complete.
      4. 4. intĕger: v. entire.
    2. II. Characterized by the highest excellence:
      1. 1. perfectus: nothing more p. in its kind than (our) actors, histrionibus nihil in suo genere perfectius, Cic. Or. 31, 109: p. in every kind of speech, in omni genere sermonis p., id. de Or. 1, 9, 35: absolutely p., [summus et] perfectissimus, ib. 1, 3.
      2. 2. absŏlūtus (acc. to Kr. indicating especially, inner excellence, while perfectus points rather to outward completeness and finish): he painted a hero of most p. execution, pinxit heroa absolutissimi operis, Plin. 35, 10, 36 § 74. Phr.: there is no one of them who is not p. in his art, nec quisquam eorum est, cui quicquam in arte sua deesse videatur, Cic. de Or. 3, 7, 26: no one absolutely p., nemo in quo nihil aut desideretur aut reprehendatur, Quint. 10, 2, 9: an absolutely p. artist, artifex adeo excellens ut nihil possit ultra, cf. Cic. Att. 15, 1, B (oratio scripta elegantissime sententiis, verbis; ut nihil possit ultra): a p. scholar, (homo) perfecte planeque eruditus, id. Br. 81, 282; absolute doctus, Suet. Gr. 4.
    3. III. In moral sense, without faults or sin: perfectus: cf. Cic. Off. 1, 15, init., vivitur non cum perfectis hominibus: or expr. by circuml., no one is born p., vitiis nemo sine nascitur, Hor. S. 1, 3, 68: man is believed to have been created p., *homo peccatis expers creatus esse creditur.
    4. IV. Thorough, having all the characteristics of:
      1. 1. germānus (genuine, unmistakable): a p. master of this art, g. hujus artis magister, Cic. de Or. 2, 38, 160: I know I am a p. (regular) ass, scio me asinum g. esse, id. Att. 4, 5: the sense is even more adequately expr. by superl.: a p. Stoic, germanissimus Stoicus, id. Ac. 2., 43, 132.
      2. 2. absŏlūtus: p. blackness, abs. nigritia, Plin. 10, 22, 29.
      3. 3. mĕrus (sheer, undiluted, nothing but): to relate p. prodigies, m. monstra nuntiare, Cic. Att. 4, 7.
      4. 4. vērus: v. true, real.
    5. V. In grammar: the p. tense, (tempus) praeteritum perfectum: Quint. 1, 6, 26. (N.B.--Not simply, perfectum; which may refer to the future perfect as well as the past.)
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• perfect (v.): perfĭcio, absolvo, 3: v. to finish, complete. Phr.: to p. oneself in any branch of knowledge, *uberiore alicujus rei scientia se imbuere: perfectam absolutamque alicujus rei cognitionem assequi.
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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• PERFECT
1. plenus (general term, having its full number, size, etc): integer (whole, unmutilated, etc.): absolutus: perfectus. (The words are found in this connection and order.) absolutus et perfectus: perfectus atque absolutus: expletus et perfectus: perfectus cumulatusque: perfectus completusque (that has the highest perfection): verus: germanus (real, genuine): thoroughly perfect, absolutus omnibus numeris: perfectus expletusque omnibus suis numeris et partibus: totus (whole, opposed to the single parts): totus integer (in the fullest manner or sense; Gell., 12, 1, in.): a perfect duty, perfectum absolutumque officium: perfect virtue, perfecta cumulataque virtus: a perfect orator, orator plenus atque perfectus; perfectus homo in dicendo et perpolitus: more perfect, perfectior (e.g., perpolitius aliquid perfectiusque, Cic.): most perfect, summus et perfectissimus (Cic.). Anything is perfect madness, aliquid summae est dementiae (e.g., exspectare, dum, etc.): a perfect philosopher, philosophus absolutus: a perfect orator, orator perfectus; homo perfectus in dicendo: a perfect Stoic, perfectus Stoicus (that can not be found fault with): germanissimus Stoicus (deviating in nothing from the Stoic school): to make anything perfect, absolvere (to accomplish anything, so that nothing is wanting in it; e.g., a benefaction, beneficium): cumulare aliquid (to put the finishing stroke to a thing, to crown it; e.g., joy, gaudium).
2. v. perficere; conficere; absolvere. (The words are found in this connection and order.) absolvere et perficere. Vid: To COMPLETE.