It is thus that Christ perfectsthe great abundance of His sweetness to them that hope in Him.
This plant bears clusters of small greenish-white, highly-fragrant flowers in March, and often perfects seed-pods in the autumn.
Owing to the spring frosts, it rarely perfects these except in sheltered sites in mild springs, but when in good bloom it is marvellously beautiful.
All active perfects, pluperfects, and future perfects are formed on the perfect stem and inflected in the same way.
Nearly all perfects of the first conjugation are formed by adding «-vī» to the present stem.
Footnote 3: See if you can explain the use of the perfects and imperfects in this passage.
One year is the most that I propose you should stay at Turin; and that year, if you employ it well, perfects you.
The perfects may be prophetic and announce what is certain to happen hereafter.
Perhaps, however, it is better to take the perfects as prophetic, and to render: "From Dan shall be heard .
For my own part, I am convinced that this new stipulation which is ingrafted on the primitive form of association, far from destroying it, improves and perfects it.
It is singular, at least, that all our great modern reformers exhibit association to us as destroyed by the very element which improves and perfects it.
But in regard to that which is last in this or that genus of knowable matter, it is science which perfects the intellect.
Since pleasure perfects operation as its end, as stated above (Q.
Prudence makes us be of good counsel, not as though its immediate act consisted in being of good counsel, but because it perfects the latter act by means of a subordinate virtue, viz.
And in this way, operation is the efficient cause of pleasure, while pleasure perfects operation by way of final cause, as stated above.
Consequently love of a suitable good perfects and betters the lover; but love of a good which is unsuitable to the lover, wounds and worsens him.
But if we consider virtue in its relation to act, then moral virtue, which perfectsthe appetite, whose function it is to move the other powers to act, as stated above (Q.
Now ignorance excludes knowledge whichperfects the reason.
Accordingly if it perfects man's speculative or practical intellect in order that his deed may be good, it will be an intellectual virtue: whereas if it perfects his appetite, it will be a moral virtue.
Whence the habit, which perfects the intellect in regard to the knowledge of truth, whether speculative or practical, is a virtue.
Now man is suitably directed to his due end by a virtue which perfects the soul in the appetitive part, the object of which is the good and the end.
That Musick, which is composed by one of Judgment and Taste, instructs the Scholar, perfects the Skilful, and delights the Hearer.
The Beatific Vision is necessary not only to enjoy the very life of heaven, but likewise to enjoy the accidental glory wherewith God perfects the happiness of his elect.
As glory perfects our whole nature, instead of destroying it, it follows that in heaven we shall be far more active than we can possibly be here below; for there all our powers will exist in their highest perfection.
It is now changed into a spiritual body, which is not only totally subject to the spirit, but even aids and perfects it, in all its intellectual operations, as well as in its moral affections.
His gradual growth into manhood only develops and perfects what the hand of God had placed in his nature on the day of his creation.
It is this love which crowns and perfects a character of this kind, and produces a very large share of the pure pleasures we enjoy in the society of such persons.
They all are happy, because they all see, love, and enjoy God, as well as the additional pleasures with which He perfects and completes the happiness of His beloved children.
For glory does not change or destroy nature, but perfects it.
Indeed, the very reverse will take place; for glory does not destroy nature, but perfects it.
Now, as glory does not destroy the nature of the body, but perfects it, it follows that all the blessed must rise with their five senses in their full perfection.
This is precisely what we learn from the angelic doctor, who maintains that the glory of the body does not destroy its nature, but perfects it, and even preserves the very color that is natural to it.
As glory does not destroy our nature, neither does it destroy our natural virtues, but perfects them.
For, as St. Thomas teaches, "the glory of heaven does not destroy nature; but perfects it.
Time, which perfects some things, imperfects also others.
Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings He perfects his praise.
Destruction perfects that which is good; for the good cannot appear on account of that which conceals it.
For instance, Paracelsus says: "Destruction perfects that which is good; for the good cannot appear on account of that which conceals it.
As Confirmation perfects Baptism by bringing to maturity the new life of grace, so Extreme Unction perfects Penance by strengthening against the spiritual debility that remains after sin itself has been wiped away.
Thus it adds to and perfects Dogmatic Theology, enriching our knowledge of God by way of making explicit the implications of Divine Creation and Providence to His image, man.
But it is not exclusive of the other methods, since it perfects the positive method, and is the groundwork for the case method.
The Gift of the Holy Ghost thatperfects the virtue of hope is Fear of the Lord (see 159 sqq.
Private justice is also greater than those other virtues, since it perfects a nobler power of the soul (viz.
The Gift of the Holy Ghost that perfectstemperance is fear of the Lord.
The two verses generally held to be historic, 18 and 19, Merx takes to be the continuation of the prayer of the priests, pointing the verbs so as to turn them from perfects into futures.
The proposal of Merx, to change the pointing so as to transform the perfects into futures, .
It is the motive alone that gives merit to human actions, and disinterestedness perfects them.
Showing How Christ, The Eternal Word Of The Father, Perfects His Work In The Hearts Of The Faithful, By Love And Humility.
For as a man's own will more and more corrupts and depraves him; so the will of God more and more perfects and restores him.
This is that love which perfects and accomplishes our Christianity, and with this do thou, O God, refresh and satisfy our souls for ever and ever.
It is from society that man derives his power: from that he perfects his reason, exercises his genius, and unites his strength.
That excretion is quickened by the principle derived from the male, which thus perfects the animal.
Divine grace originates, maintains and perfects all the good in man, so much so that he cannot, though regenerate, conceive, will or do any good thing without it.
This explains how labor perfects the inventive faculty.
Activity in changeable beings represents a principle of their own and others' changes, a sort of superabundance of being which constantly develops itself, and, in proportion as it is developed, perfects itself.
When the soul in man perfects itself with all the knowledge of this world it becomes identified with the Active Intellect, which may be likened to the intellect or soul of the corporeal world.
Some prophets also have their rational powers more highly developed than those of an ordinary person who perfects his reason by theoretical study.
And the fact that the sun maiden at the end of the story releases her six planet brothers, sounds exactly as when the tincturing power of gold at the end of six days perfects the six imperfect metals and makes the ill, well.
Also there occurs the idea that we must derive a male activity from the gold, a female from the silver, in order to get from their union that which perfects the mercury of the metals.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perfects" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
