Meanings of imperfect state in English

Only, my dear sir, one is quite self-conceited enough in this imperfect state.

At this time the notation was in an imperfect state.

These were finished by Vicino, for Jacopo left them in a very imperfect state.

Yet even in its imperfect state the evolutionary picture of the world is most illuminating.

But Persia and England, in the present imperfect state of civilization, are tolerably far apart.

But criticism is still in a very imperfect state.

Accidents had brought it to an imperfect state.

To the excited and imperfect state of the ear we owe the existence of what Milton sublimely calls-

The vertebral column of Archegosaurus was alone known, and it was in a remarkably imperfect state of ossification.

Though banking had been well started in the Middle Ages, it was still in an imperfect state of development.

Yet in spite of its imperfect state of preservation I found this relic of a dead and forgotten past pulse-stirring.

Happily, this disgusting exhibition is forbidden by the imperfect state of their civilisation and the inelastic quality of their environment.

The consideration of these circumstances will afford sufficient apology for the imperfect state in which natural science existed amongst the ancients.

Civilization is cultivation, whole cultivation; and even in its present imperfect state, it not only permits physical training, but promotes it.

God Almighty hath been pleased to put us into an imperfect state, where we have perpetual occasion of each other's assistance.

The alphabet is yet in a very imperfect state; perhaps seventeen letters could express all the simple sounds in the European languages.