† imˈperfected, a. Obs.
[f. im-2 + perfected, pa. pple. of perfect v.]
Not perfected; incomplete, imperfect.
| 1552 Huloet, Imperfected, infectus, i. non factus aut non perfectus. a 1631 Donne in Select. (1840) 100 Imperfected confessions (who perfects his confession?) leaue ill-gotten goods sticking upon thine heir. 1809–10 Coleridge Friend (1818) I. 158 The distinction between perfected and imperfected Obligations. 1829 E. Jesse Jrnl. Naturalist 297 The younger and imperfected creatures mine their way..in the solid timber. |