perficient

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pə(ɹ)ˈfɪʃənt/
• Rhymes: -ɪʃənt

Noun

perficient (plural perficients)

1. One who performs or perfects a work.
2. One who endows a charity.

Adjective

perficient (comparative more perficient, superlative most perficient)

1. Making or doing thoroughly; efficient; effectual.
   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

     And , in general , the king being the sole founder of all civil corporations , and the endower the perficient founder of all eleemosynary ones

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “perficient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Verb

perficient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of perficiō