perfit
Middle English
Adjective
perfit
- perfect
- 1624, John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation I., in The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne, ed. Charles M. Coffin, New York: Modern Library (1952), pp. 415-416:
- … as if he would make a fire the more vehement, by sprinkling water upon the coales, so to wrap a hote fever in cold Melancholy, least the fever alone should not destroy fast enough, without this contribution nor perfit the work (which is destruction) except we joynd an artificiall sicknes, of our owne melancholy, to our natural, our unnaturall fever.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
- 1624, John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation I., in The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne, ed. Charles M. Coffin, New York: Modern Library (1952), pp. 415-416:
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