Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PER-PET'U-ATE, v.t. [L. perpetuo.]

1. To make perpetual; to eternize.
2. 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.
3. To continue by repetition without limitation.