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( ôÝëåéïé or ôåëåéïýìåíïé , the perfect), a name of early Christians, which had relation to the sacred mysteries, and denoted such as had been initiated. Baptism was denominated ôåëåôή ); to join the Church was styled ἐëèåῖí ἐðὶ ôὸ ôÝëåéïí , to attain to perfection; the participation of the eucharist, which followed immediately on baptism, was called ôåëåôὴ ôåëåôῶí , perfection of perfections; and the absolution granted in the eucharist was called ôὸ ôÝëåéïí , the perfection of a Christian. The word is, however, used frequently in the New Test., not indeed in this sense, but in relation to Christian perfection.