τελείως (τέλειος), adverb, perfectly, completely: 1Pe_1:13. (Plato, Isocrates, Aristotle, etc.; cf. Winer's Grammar, 463 (431).)

τελείως teleiōs 1x perfectly, completely, 1Pe_1:13

** τελείως ( < τέλειος ), adv. , [in LXX : Jdt_11:6 , 2Ma_12:42 , 3Ma_3:26 ; 3Ma_7:22 , R* ;] completely, perfectly: 1Pe_1:13 .†

τελείως [page 629] τελείως is found in the NT only in 1Pe_1:13 νήφοντες τελείως , where Hort Comm. ad l . understands the phrase to mean being sober with a perfect sobriety, a sobriety entering into all their thoughts and ways, the opposite of heedless drifting as in a mist. Cf. the fragmentary P Petr III. 42 H(8c) .3 (iii/B.C.) τελείως ποιήσεις , P Flor I. 93 .27 (deed of divorce A.D. 569) ἐξηλλάχθαι πρὸς ἀλλήλους καὶ διαλελύσθαι ἐντόνως καὶ τελείὠ̣ , and the Christian amulet BGU III. 954 .30 ( c . vi/A.D.) (= Selections , p. 134) ending Ἅγιε Σέρηνε , πρόσπεσε ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ , ἵνα τελείως ὑγιανῶ , O holy Serenus, supplicate on my behalf, that I may be in perfect health. In MGr the adv. has the form τέλεια . [Supplemental from 1930 edition] Add P Oxy XVI. 1837 .9 (early vi/A.D.) ἵνα τελίος ( l. τελείως ) ἀσχημονήσῃ in order that there may be no bounds to his disgraceful behaviour (Edd.).

τελείως (τέλειος), adv., [in LXX: Jdth.11:6, 2Ma.12:42, 3Ma.3:26 3Mac 7:22, R* ;] completely, perfectly: 1Pe.1:13.† (AS)