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