Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Perfect \Per"fect\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Perfected}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Perfecting}.] [L. perfectus, p. p. of perficere. See
   {Perfect}, a.]
   To make perfect; to finish or complete, so as to leave
   nothing wanting; to give to anything all that is requisite to
   its nature and kind.

         God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfect in us. --1
                                                  John iv. 12.

         Inquire into the nature and properties of the things, .
         . . and thereby perfect our ideas of their distinct
         species.                                 --Locke.

   {Perfecting press} (Print.), a press in which the printing on
      both sides of the paper is completed in one passage
      through the machine.

   Syn: To finish; accomplish; complete; consummate.