Lexicographical Neighbors of Perfecti
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 ..."