teleiotic

English

Etymology

From Byzantine Ancient Greek τελειωτικός (teleiōtikós, “perfective, effective”), from Koine Greek τελειωτής (teleiōtḗs, “accomplisher, finisher”), from Ancient Greek τελειοῦν (teleioûn, “to perfect, to complete”).

Adjective

teleiotic (comparative more teleiotic, superlative most teleiotic)

1. (rare) Complete, perfect. [from 18th c.]
   • 1702, Henry Dodwell, Concerning Marriages in Different Communions:

     It seems therefore to imply, that the Mysteries of the Law were of the lower sort, Cathartic only, not Teleiotic.

   • 1860, Thomas Laycock, Mind and brain; or, The Correlations of consciousness and organisation, volume 2, page 183:

     […] I shall apply the term teleiotic homology to the results of the method of examining into the structures of organisms which I now recommend, and which, fixing definitely upon a primary teleiotic idea or law of development, examines them not only per se, but as constructed according to that law, in relation to each other, as parts of a harmonious whole […]

   • 1863, “The Genesis of Mind”, in The Journal of Mental Science‎^[1], volume 8, page 74:

     The foregoing considerations lead us to remark that it is a mistaken waste of power to attempt by education to assimilate any animal to man; for the true education of every animal is to realise the possibility of its particular type—fully to display the teleiotic idea which it embodies.

   • 2014, Danielle A. Layne, The Neoplatonic Socrates‎^[2], page 103:

     The Neoplatonic exegesis of the two “complete” (teleiotic) dialogues that follow the basic cycle of ten—Timaeus and Parmenides—begins to answer this question.