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Perfection
Perfection is
represented in painting, &c. by a beautiful lady cloth’d in a vest of
gold gauze; her bosom unveil’d; her body partly hid by the zodiack on which she
leans with her right hand, her sleeves turn’d up to the elbow, and describing a
perfect circle by a pair of compasses in her left; the golden robe denotes
perfection; the naked breast her propensity to cherish others; and the circle
is the most perfect figure in
Mathematicks.
Definition taken from
The Universal Etymological English Dictionary,
edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)
Peˊccant humours [in Physick] *
Phalloˊphori