perfective
nounEtymology From perfect + -ive.
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Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A perfective verb form.
perfective
adj/pə(ɹ)ˈfɛktɪv/
Etymology From perfect + -ive.
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Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Of, or relative to, the perfective aspect.
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Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Of, or relative to, a perfect tense.
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Obsolete Tending to make perfect, or to bring to perfection.
- a perfective alterationa. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:
- It is not likely that Eternal Life ſhall be a torpid and unactive ſtate, or that it ſhall conſiſt only in an uninterrupted and endleſs Act of Love; the other Faculties ſhall be employed as well as the Will, in Actions ſuitable to, and perfective of their Natures; […]1701, John Ray, “Of Bodies Endued with a Sensitive Soul, or Animals”, in The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation, […], 3rd edition, London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, […], →OCLC, page 191:
- Derived terms
- imperfective, perfectively, perfectiveness, perfectivity, perfectivization, perfectivize, perfective aspect