Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PEI-RAS'TIC
PEI-RAS'TIC, a. [Gr. πειραστικος, from πειραω, to strain, attempt.]
- Attempting; making trial.
- Treating of or representing trials or attempts; as, the peirastic dialogues of Plato. – Enfield.
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