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Perfect cadence
(gcide) | Perfect \Per"fect\ (p[~e]r"f[e^]kt), a. [OE. parfit, OF. parfit,
parfet, parfait, F. parfait, L. perfectus, p. p. of perficere
to carry to the end, to perform, finish, perfect; per (see
Per-) + facere to make, do. See Fact.]
1. Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not
defective nor redundant; having all the properties or
qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw,
fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure;
sound; right; correct.
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My strength is made perfect in weakness. --2 Cor.
xii. 9.
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Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun. --Shak.
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I fear I am not in my perfect mind. --Shak.
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O most entire perfect sacrifice! --Keble.
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God made thee perfect, not immutable. --Milton.
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2. Well informed; certain; sure.
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I am perfect that the Pannonians are now in arms.
--Shak.
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3. (Bot.) Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; --
said of a flower.
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Perfect cadence (Mus.), a complete and satisfactory close
in the harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the
dominant.
Perfect chord (Mus.), a concord or union of sounds which is
perfectly coalescent and agreeable to the ear, as the
unison, octave, fifth, and fourth; a perfect consonance; a
common chord in its original position of keynote, third,
fifth, and octave.
Perfect number (Arith.), a number equal to the sum of all
its divisors; as, 28, whose aliquot parts, or divisors,
are 14, 7, 4, 2, 1. See Abundant number, under
Abundant. --Brande & C.
Perfect tense (Gram.), a tense which expresses an act or
state completed; also called the perfective tense.
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Syn: Finished; consummate; complete; entire; faultless;
blameless; unblemished.
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Imperfect cadence
(gcide) | Imperfect \Im*per"fect\, a. [L. imperfectus: pref. im- not +
perfectus perfect: cf. F imparfait, whence OE. imparfit. See
Perfect.]
1. Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a
part; deective; deficient.
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Something he left imperfect in the state. --Shak.
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Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect. --Shak.
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2. Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential to
successful or normal activity.
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He . . . stammered like a child, or an amazed,
imperfect person. --Jer. Taylor.
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3. Not fulfilling its design; not realizing an ideal; not
conformed to a standard or rule; not satisfying the taste
or conscience; esthetically or morally defective.
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Nothing imperfect or deficient left
Of all that he created. --Milton.
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Then say not man's imperfect, Heaven in fault;
Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought. --Pope.
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Imperfect arch, an arch of less than a semicircle; a skew
arch.
Imperfect cadence (Mus.), one not ending with the tonic,
but with the dominant or some other chord; one not giving
complete rest; a half close.
Imperfect consonances (Mus.), chords like the third and
sixth, whose ratios are less simple than those of the
fifth and forth.
Imperfect flower (Bot.), a flower wanting either stamens or
pistils. --Gray.
Imperfect interval (Mus.), one a semitone less than
perfect; as, an imperfect fifth.
Imperfect number (Math.), a number either greater or less
than the sum of its several divisors; in the former case,
it is called also a defective number; in the latter, an
abundant number.
Imperfect obligations (Law), obligations as of charity or
gratitude, which cannot be enforced by law.
Imperfect power (Math.), a number which can not be produced
by taking any whole number or vulgar fraction, as a
factor, the number of times indicated by the power; thus,
9 is a perfect square, but an imperfect cube.
Imperfect tense (Gram.), a tense expressing past time and
incomplete action.
[1913 Webster]Cadence \Ca"dence\, n. [OE. cadence, cadens, LL. cadentia a
falling, fr. L. cadere to fall; cf. F. cadence, It. cadenza.
See Chance.]
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1. The act or state of declining or sinking. [Obs.]
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Now was the sun in western cadence low. --Milton.
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2. A fall of the voice in reading or speaking, especially at
the end of a sentence.
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3. A rhythmical modulation of the voice or of any sound; as,
music of bells in cadence sweet.
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Blustering winds, which all night long
Had roused the sea, now with hoarse cadence lull
Seafaring men o'erwatched. --Milton.
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The accents . . . were in passion's tenderest
cadence. --Sir W.
Scott.
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4. Rhythmical flow of language, in prose or verse.
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Golden cadence of poesy. --Shak.
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If in any composition much attention was paid to the
flow of the rhythm, it was said (at least in the
14th and 15th centuries) to be "prosed in faire
cadence." --Dr. Guest.
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5. (Her.) See Cadency.
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6. (Man.) Harmony and proportion in motions, as of a
well-managed horse.
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7. (Mil.) A uniform time and place in marching.
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8. (Mus.)
(a) The close or fall of a strain; the point of rest,
commonly reached by the immediate succession of the
tonic to the dominant chord.
(b) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before
the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with
a flight of fancy.
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Imperfect cadence. (Mus.) See under Imperfect.
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