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Perfective   Listen
noun
perfective  n.  
1.
(Gram.) The perfective case or aspect.
2.
(Gram.) A verb in the perfective case or aspect.



adjective
Perfective  adj.  
1.
Tending or conducing to make perfect, or to bring to perfection; usually followed by of. "A perfective alteration." "Actions perfective of their natures."
2.
(Gram.) Denoting an aspect of verbs which indicates completion of an action, and is sometimes explicitly marked in verbal inflection, as in the Russian language; as, the perfective form of a verb. The use of a perfective form rather than the simple past indicates reference to a completed event, rather than to a process that took place in the past.






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"Perfective" Quotes from Famous Books



... of man; and to oppose that, were to fight against God. The supreme magistrates in such cases should be nurse-fathers, Isa. xlix. 23, not step-fathers to the Church; their power being cumulative and perfective, not privative and destructive unto her; for she both had and exercised a power in church government, long before there was any Christian magistrate in the world; and it cannot be proved that ever Christ took away that power from his Church, or translated it to the political ...
— The Divine Right of Church Government • Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London



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