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perfect: see tense tense [O.Fr., from Lat.,=time], in the grammar of many languages, a category of time distinctions expressed by any conjugated form of a verb. In Latin inflection the tense of a verb is indicated by a suffix that also indicates the verb's voice , mood , person, and ..... Click the link for more information. . perfect 1. Maths exactly divisible into equal integral or polynomial roots 2. Botany a. (of flowers) having functional stamens and pistils b. (of plants) having all parts present 3. Music a. of or relating to the intervals of the unison, fourth, fifth, and octave b. (of a cadence) ending on the tonic chord, giving a feeling of conclusion How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The system is also not the best of all possible systems, so there's lots of room for improvement--but like any system, it's not perfectible, no matter how many times it is reformed, re-engineered, or reimagined. For myself," he writes in Aubade, "I summarized the liberal religious viewpoint which I heard from Protestant and Jewish students, and even some Catholic students, in this way: man has never fallen, man never incurred guilt, man is ultimately perfectible by his own works, by his own efforts . Like Kirk, Babbitt lived at odds with the ideologies of his day, intuiting that ideology is at war with man--a fallen creature, not perfectible in this life--and that there are constants, call them permanent things, which must be observed. |
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