perficient

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/pə(ɹ)ˈfɪʃənt/

noun

One who performs or perfects a work.

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Meanings

nounperficient (plural perficients)

plural perficients

  1. One who performs or perfects a work.
  2. One who endows a charity.
adjectiveperficient (comparative more perficient, superlative most perficient)

comparative more perficient · superlative most perficient

  1. Making or doing thoroughly; efficient; effectual.

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

    1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC
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    Religion, as accurately defined, embraces only the perficient relations between divinity and man, and the mode in which such relations operate.

    1889 November 28, Garrick Mallery, “Israelite and Indian: A Parallel in Planes of Culture I”, in Popular Science Monthly

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