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τελεί-ωσις or τελέωσις , εως, ἡ,
A.development, completion, of physical growth, “λαμβάνει τελέωσιν τὰ ᾠά” Arist.HA543a19, cf. 561a5, Hp.Septim.1, Sor. 1.18, al., Gal.15.26; “τὴν τ. τῶν μορίων ἀπολαμβάνειν” Arist.HA583b24, etc.; ἡ τῶν καρπῶν τ. Thphr.HP3.4.3; ἕως τελειώσεως to saturation-point, Epicur.Ep.2p.38U.; of a building, Arist.Ph.246a26; of a statue, Stoic.3.48; in moral sense, “αἱ ἀρεταὶ τελειώσεις” Arist.Ph.247a2, cf. 246a13, Metaph.1021b20; “εἰς τὴν τ. ἄγεσθαι τῆς φύσεως” Id.EN 1153a12.
b. execution of a legal instrument by completing it, BGU 1168.3 (i B.C.), PFlor.56.7, al. (iii A.D.).
2. in Logic, “ἡ τ. τῶν συλλογισμῶν” Arist.APr.42a35; cf. “τελειόω” 1.2.
II. attainment of manhood, AJA18.324 (Sardis, Epist. Augusti).
b. marriage, LXX Je.2.2; cf. “τέλειος” 1.2b, 11.
II. of events, accomplishment, fulfilment, Ev.Luc.1.45; “λόγων” LXX Ju.10.9.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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