perfectionateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

perfectionate (三人称単数 現在形 perfectionates, 現在分詞 perfectionating, 過去形および過去分詞形 perfectionated)

1. (transitive, now rare) To make perfect or complete; to perfect. [from 16th c.]
   • 1695, John Dryden, "Parallel of Poetry and Painting":

     [P]ainters and sculptors, cjoosing the most elegant natural beauties, perfectionate the idea, and advance their art above Nature itself in her individual productions; which is the utmost mastery of human performance.

   • 1818, [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, または III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, OCLC 830979744:

     ‘I agree with you,’ replied the stranger; ‘we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves—such a friend ought to be—do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures.’

   • 1848 November – 1850 December​, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 23, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I または II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], OCLC 2057953:

     If interrupted, he remonstrated pathetically with his little maid. Every great artist, he said, had need of solitude to perfectionate his works.