peirastic

[Gr. peirastikos, from peiraō = to try.] Fitted for or pertaining to trial or testing; making trial or test; tentative. *peire, verb t. & i. [A contraction of apeire .] [APPAIRE.] *pēiş-ant, a. [PEISE, v.] Heavy, weighty. "They did sustaine Their peisant weight."-Hudson: Judith , ii. 82. *peise, *peeze, s . (PEISE, v.] A weight, a poise. *peise, *peize, v . t . [French peser = to weigh.] verb.) C. As substantive: IMG:content-0815.png:[blocks in formation] *pěgm (gsilent), *pěg'-ma, *peg me, s. [Latin pegma , from Gr. pegma , from pēgnymi to fasten.] 1. A sort of moving machine in the old pageants. "In the center or midst of the peg me ."-Ben Jonson: King James' Entertainment. 2. A speech spoken from a pegm. ( Chapman : Widdowes Teares , ii.)