Definition of Perfecti

1. a body of medieval Christians who lived strict lives [n]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Perfecti

perfect state
perfect storm
perfect storms
perfect system
perfect tense
perfect tenses
perfect unison
perfect unisons
perfecta
perfectability
perfectas
perfected
perfecter
perfecters
perfectest
perfecti (current term)
perfectibilian
perfectibilians
perfectibilist
perfectibilists
perfectibilities
perfectibility
perfectible
perfecting
perfecting press
perfecting presses
perfection
perfectional
perfectionate
perfectionated

Literary usage of Perfecti

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

1. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander, Alexander James William Morrison (1852)
"... in this sect correspond the two classes of perfecti, or boni homines, who were called ... perfecti ..."

2. A Short History of the Baptists by Henry C. Vedder (1907)
"Before admission among the perfecti one must have passed a period of ... The perfecti were celibates— women were admitted to this rank—and lived an ascetic ..."

3. The Christian Examiner edited by Edward Everett Hale (1862)
"perfecti et non perfecti: perfecti viatores nondum perfecti possessores," says Augustine.* The time and method of attaining this completeness of Christian ..."

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