To accomplish: to bring to a point: to bring to passe or effect: to atchieue his purpose: to obtaine. Absoluere & perficere aliquid. Cic. To finishe and make an ende of. Conari aliquid & perficere. Ci To indeuor & bring to passe. Conflare & perficere. Cic. Absolutionem alicuius rei perficere. Cicer. To bring to perfite ende. Annos centÛ perficere. Hor. To liue out an hundred yeres. Cibum perficere. Plin. To digest or concoet meate. Cogitata perficere. Cic. To accomplish that he thought and purposed. Coria perficere, Vide CORIVM. Instituta perficere. Cic. To make an end of those things that he began. Iussa alicuius perficere. Val. Flac. To put in execution ones commaundements. Malcficium perficere. Cic. Susceptum perficere munus. Virg. Officium perficere funeris. Ouid. Onus & munus perficere. Cecinna. Cicero. To accomplishe his charge and duetie. Pelles perficere. Plin. To dresse felles or skinues, as tanners and such other doe. Poema institutum perficere Cic. Promissa perficere Terent. To accomplishe and performe promises. Scelus perficere. Cic. Stamina pauca perfeci. Ouid. I did spinne a little, or a few threades. Perfecit, sibi vt inspiciundi esset copia. Tere. Hee broughte to passe, or he did so much, that, &c. Nunquam hodie quiescit prius, qum id quod petit, perfecerit. Plaut. He will not rest this day vntill hee hathe obtained that he desireth. Perficiam profectò, vt neque Resp. &c. Cice. I wil bring to passe, that, &c. Perfici, passiuum. Plinius, Difficulter perficiuntur omnia in cibis, acria, nimia, & auidè hausta. All vaporing hote meates, and such as bee taken in excesse or too greedilye be verie hardly disgested.

I. Lit.: comitiis perficiendis undecim dies tribuit, Caes. B. C. 3, 2: iis comitiis perfectis, Liv. 24, 43, 9: bellum, id. 22, 38, 7: aliquid absolvi et perfici, Cic. N. D. 2, 13, 35: multa, id. Or. 30, 105: scelus, to perpetrate, id. Clu. 68, 194: cogitata, id. Deiot. 7, 21: instituta, id. Div. 2, 5: poëma, id. Q. Fr. 2, 8: conata, Caes. B. G. 1, 3: nihil est simul et inventum et perfectum, Cic. Brut. 18, 71: centum annos, to complete, live, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 39.—So of commissions, orders, to execute: munus, Verg. A. 6, 629; 6, 637; Cic. Fam. 6, 7: jussa, Val. Fl. 7, 61: mandata, Sil. 13, 343.—

II. Transf.

A. To bring to completion, finish, perfect (opp. inchoare): candelabrum perfectum e gemmis clarissimis, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 28, 64: murum, Liv. 25, 11: loricam, Sil. 2, 403: aedem, Suet. Aug. 60: cibos ambulatione, to digest, Plin. 11, 53, 118, 283: cucumeres, id. 19, 5, 23, 65: coria, to dress or curry, id. 23, 1, 16, 22: lanas, id. 35, 15, 52, 190: minium, id. 33, 7, 40, 118.—

B. To make perfect, to perfect: aliquem citharā, Ov. A. A. 1, 11: expleta et perfecta forma honestatis, Cic. Fin. 2, 15, 48: artem, Suet. Ner. 41.—

C. To bring about, to cause, effect; with ut, Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 24; Cic. Agr. 1, 9, 127: perfice ut putem, convince me, id. Tusc. 1, 8, 15; id. Fam. 11, 27, 2: eloquentia perfecit, ut, etc., Nep. Ep. 6, 4.—With ne and subj.: omnia perfecit, quae senatus salvā re publicā ne fieri possent perfecerat, Cic. Phil. 2, 22, 55. —

D. In mal. part., = e)nergei=n, Mart. 3, 79, 2; cf. Ov. A. A. 1, 389; Capitol. Max. 4, 7.— perfectus, a, um, P. a., finished, complete, perfect, excellent, exquisite (class.).

A. Of persons: oratorem plenum atque perfectum esse, etc., Cic. de Or. 1, 13, 59: homines in dicendo, id. ib. 1, 13, 58: perfectis et absoluti philosophi, id. Div. 2, 72, 150: homines, id. Off. 1, 15, 46; id. Brut. 30, 114: in geometriā, id. Fin. 1, 6, 20: in arte, Ov. A. A. 2, 547.—In a religious sense, righteous (eccl. Lat.): cor perfectum, Vulg. 3 Reg. 11, 4; id. Matt. 5, 48.—Perfectissimus, a title of honor under the later emperors, Cod. Const. 12, tit. 33; Am. 21, 16 init.; Lact. 5, 14, 18.—

B. Of inanim. and abstr. things: naturae, Cic. N. D. 2, 12, 33: ratio, id. ib. 13, 34: pulchriora etiam Polycliti et iam plane perfecta (signa), id. Brut. 18, 70: perfectum atque absolutum officium, id. Off. 3, 3, 14: perfecta cumulataque virtus, id. Sest. 40, 86: aetas, full or ripe age, the age of fiveand-twenty, Dig. 4, 4, 32 init.—Comp.: valvae perfectiores, Cic. Verr. 2, 56: aliquid perfectius, id. de Or. 1, 2, 5; id. Brut. 18, 69; Hor. Epod. 5, 59; Quint. 12, 1, 21: ad perfectiora, Vulg. Heb. 6, 1.—Sup.: quod ego summum et perfectissimum judicem, Cic. Or. 1, 3; 15, 47; id. Brut. 31, 118; Juv. 2, 5.—Adv.: perfectē, fully, completely, perfectly (class.): eruditus, Cic. Brut. 81, 282; id. de Or. 1, 28, 130: veritatem imitari, id. Div. 1, 13, 23.—Comp., App. Flor. p. 357, 1; Tert. Apol. 45.—Sup., Gell. 11, 16 fin.