Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: perch – perfectness
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perch (-ed, -es), v. [Fr. perche-r < L. pertica, pole, long staff.] (webplay: bird, trees).
- Roost; alight; balance; poise; pause briefly; settle; lodge.
- Hang; rest; fix; suspend.
- Set; position; [fig.] employ; engage; apply.
perchance, adv. [ME < AFr par chance.]
Perhaps; maybe; possibly.
perchance, n. [see perchance, adv.]
Uncertainty; luck; [fig.] fate; fortune; destiny; unpredictable nature of future events.
perdition, n. [ME < OFr perdiciun < L. perděre, make away with, destroy, lose.] (webplay: sinner, soul).
- Hell; the netherworld; the pit of despair; [fig.] depression; doom; dread.
- Destruction; death; loss of the soul; the depths of Hades.
- Satan; Lucifer; diabolic logic; devilish cunning.
- Condemnation; damnation; guilt; being caught in the act.
- Sin; transgression; intemperance; debauchery; indulgence; revelry.
perennial, adj. [L. perenni-s < per, through + ann-us, year.] (webplay: leaves).
- Constant; secure; stable; never failing.
- Perpetual; [fig.] eternal; everlasting; undying; deathless; unfading.
- Long-lived; lasting through a succession of years.
perennial, adv. [see perennial, adj.]
Constantly; continually; ceaselessly; at all times.
perfect (-er, -est), adj. [ME < OFr parfit < L. perfect-um, accomplished, performed, completed.] (webplay: becoming, Being, consummate, distinct, endowment, excellence, flower, full, heart, heaven, highest, holiness, imitate, infinite, leave, life, love, nature, new, powers, soul, species, supreme, wanting, worth).
- Immortal; eternal; everlasting; perpetual; holy; celestial.
- Exactly like; extremely similar to; closely imitating.
- Pure; clean; unblemished; flawless.
- Divine; supremely holy; all-powerful.
- Full; whole; completely illuminated.
- Complete; thorough.
- Entire; total; absolute.
- Consummate; final; crowning; culminating; climactic.
- Excellent; wonderful; lacking nothing.
perfect, n. [see perfect, adj.] (webplay: soul).
Saints; righteous ones; guiltless souls; virtuous people.
perfected, verbal adj. [see perfect, adj.] (webplay: Being, life, soul).
- Consummated; made whole; caused to fulfill a purpose.
- Finished; completed; fully built.
perfectness, n. [see perfect, adj.] (webplay: absolute, consummate, full).
- Immortality; the afterlife.
- Flawlessness; absence of faults.