Definition of Perfecta

1. Noun. A bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order.

Exact synonyms: Exacta
Generic synonyms: Bet, Wager

Definition of Perfecta

1. Noun. (Chiefly American English) A kind of bet wherein the first and second-place finishers must be predicted in the correct order. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Perfecta

1. a system of betting [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Perfecta

perfect participle
perfect pitch
perfect rhyme
perfect set
perfect state
perfect storm
perfect storms
perfect system
perfect tense
perfect tenses
perfect unison
perfect unisons
perfecta (current term)
perfectability
perfectas
perfected
perfecter
perfecters
perfectest
perfecti
perfectibilian
perfectibilians
perfectibilist
perfectibilists
perfectibilities
perfectibility
perfectible

Literary usage of Perfecta

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"... perfecta herself joins in this hostility, which finally develops into a venomous bitterness that menaces his life. Such a feeling was not the outgrowth ..."

2. The Institutes of the Roman Law by Frederick James Tomkins (1867)
"Minus quam perfecta lex est qua) vetat aliquid fieri, et si factum sit non ... which he does in the following words—" Lex aut perfecta est, aut imperfecta ..."

3. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"... we meet with arguments expressly based on the Church being a respublica perfecta, a position no longer denied for the State. It is indeed remarkable to ..."

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