"perfit" meaning in English

See perfit in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more perfit [comparative], most perfit [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} perfit (comparative more perfit, superlative most perfit)
  1. Obsolete form of perfect. Tags: alt-of, obsolete Alternative form of: perfect
    Sense id: en-perfit-en-adj-0Q~YAr2u Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "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",
          "text": "… 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."
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