Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: PER-PAIS – PER-PLEX'
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PER-PAIS, adv. [Per pais; Norm. French.]
In law, by the country, that is, by a jury.
PER-PARES, adv. [Per Pares.]
By the peers or his peers.
PER-PEND', v.t. [L. perpendo; per and pendo, to weigh.]
To weigh in the mind; to consider attentively. [Little used.] – Shak. Brown.
PER-PEND'ER, n. [Fr. parpaing.]
A coping stone. – Johnson.
PER-PEND'I-CLE, n. [Fr. perpendicule, from L. perpendiculum.]
Something hanging down in a direct line; a plumb line. – Dict.
PER-PEN-DIC'U-LAR, a. [L. perpendicularis, from perpendiculum, a plumb line; perpendeo; per and pendeo, to hang.]
- Hanging or extending in a right line from any point toward the center of the earth or of gravity, or at right angles with the plane of the horizon.
- In geometry, falling directly on another line at right angles. The line A is perpendicular to the line B.
- A line falling at right angles on the plane of the horizon, that is, extending from some point in a right line toward the center of the earth or center of, gravity, or any body standing in that direction.
- In geometry, a line falling at right angles on another line, or making equal angles with it on each side. – Encyc.
The state of being perpendicular. – Watts.
PER-PEN-DIC'U-LAR-LY, adv.
- In a manner to fall on another line at right angles.
- So as to fall on the plane of the horizon at right angles; in a direction toward the center of the earth or of gravity.
PER-PEN'SION, n. [L. perpendo.]
Consideration. [Not used.] – Brown.
PER-PES'SION, n. [L. perpessio, perpetior, to suffer; per and patior.]
Suffering; endurance. [Not used.] – Pearson.
PER'PE-TRATE, v.t. [L. perpetro; per and patro, to go through, to finish.]
To do; to commit; to perform; in an ill sense, that is, always used to express an evil act; as, to perpetrate a crime or an evil design. – Dryden.
PER'PE-TRA-TED, pp.
Done; committed; as an evil act.
PER'PE-TRA-TING, ppr.
Committing; as a crime or evil act.
PER-PE-TRA'TION, n.
- The act of committing a crime. – Wotton.
- An evil action. – K. Charles.
PER'PE-TRA-TOR, n.
One that commits a crime.
PER-PET'U-AL, a. [Fr. perpetuel; L. perpetuus, from perpes, perpetis; per and pes, from a root signifying to pass.]
- Never ceasing; continuing forever in future tame; destined to be eternal; as, a perpetual covenant; a perpetual statute. [Literally true with respect to the decrees of the Supreme Being.]
- Continuing or continued without intermission; uninterrupted; as, a perpetual stream; the perpetual action of the heart and arteries.
- Permanent; fixed; not temporary; as, a perpetual law or edict; perpetual love or amity; perpetual incense. – Exod. xxx.
- Everlasting; endless. Destructions are come to a perpetual end. – Ps. ix.
- During the legal dispensation. – Ex. xxix. Perpetual curacy, is where all the tithes are appropriated and no vicarage is endowed. – Blackstone. Perpetual motion, motion that generates a power of continuing itself forever or indefinitely, by means of mechanism or some application of the force of gravity, not yet discovered, and probably impossible. Perpetual screw, a screw that acts against the teeth of a wheel and continues its action without end. – Wilkins.
PER-PET'U-AL-LY, adv.
Constantly; continually; applied to things which proceed without intermission, or which occur frequently or at intervals, without limitation. A perennial spring flows perpetually; the weather varies perpetually. The Bible and common prayer book in the vulgar tongue, being perpetually read in churches, have proved a kind of standard for language.
PER-PET'U-ATE, v.t. [L. perpetuo.]
- To make perpetual; to eternize.
- To cause to endure or to be continued indefinitely, to preserve from extinction or oblivion; as, to perpetuate the remembrance of a great event or of an illustrious character, The monument in London perpetuates the remembrance of the conflagration in 1666. Medals may perpetuate the glories of a prince. – Addison.
- To continue by repetition without limitation.
PER-PET'U-A-TED, pp.
Made perpetual; continued through eternity, or for an indefinite time.
PER-PET'U-A-TING, ppr.
Continuing forever or indefinitely.
PER-PET-U-A'TION, n.
The act a making perpetual, or of preserving from extinction or oblivion through an endless existence, or for an indefinite period of time. – Brown.
PER-PE-TU'I-TY, n. [L. perpetuitas.]
- Endless duration; continuance to eternity.
- Continued uninterrupted existence, or duration for an indefinite period of time; as, the perpetuity of laws and institutions; the perpetuity of fame.
- Something of which there will be no end. – South.
PER-PHOS'PHATE, n.
A phosphate in which the phosphoric acid is combined with an oxyd at the maximum of oxydation.
PER-PLEX', a.
Intricate; difficult. [Not used.] – Glanville.