rare. [a. Gr. τελείωσις, f. τελειοῦν to perfect, to complete.] Perfection, completion, consummation. So † Teleiotical a. Obs. rare–1, making perfect, perfective.
1602. Bp. W. Barlow, Defence, 92. The teleioticall or finall cause eternall life.
1874. J. W. Haley, Discrepancies of the Bible, 169. Clement of Alexandria applies the term ‘perfection,’ ‘teleiosis,’ to the martyrdom of believers. He says: “We call martyrdom ‘perfection,’ ‘teleiosis,’ not because man receives it as the completion of life, but because it is the consummation of the work of love.”
1898. Gladstone, in Times, 5 Jan. Truth and beauty, truth the first, and beauty the handmaid or teleiosis of truth, are the divinely appointed sustenance of the human soul.
