Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PER'PE-TRATE
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.
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