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[PERPEND, 8.] *per-pěs'-sión ( as sh), 8. [Lat. perpe io, from perpe us , pa. par. of per pet i or =to suffer patiently: per =through, and patior =to suffer.] Suffering; endurance. "A perpetual perpe ion and duration in misery."Pearson: On the Creed, art. 12. per-pě-tra-ble, a . [As if from a Low Lat. per . petrabilis .] Capable of being perpetrated. ( North : Examen , p. 128.) per-pě-trāte, v . t . [PERPETRABLE, a. Fr. perpétrer; Sp. & Port. perpetrar ; Ital. per pet rare .] To do, to execute, to perform; now only in a bad sense; to commit, to be guilty of; as, to perpetrate a crime; also humorously of something shocking or bad; as, to perpetrate a pun. per-pě-trā-tion, subst . [Lat. per pet ratio , from per pet ratus , pa. par. of perpetro =to perpetrate (q. v.); Fr. perpétration ; Sp. perpetracion ; Ital. perpetrazione .] 1. The act of perpetrating or committing, as a crime. "A person who, although perhaps not the perpetrator of these butcheries, must have been in some measure implicated in their perpetration ."-Poe: Murders in the Rue Morgue. perpetuable per-pět-u-a-ble, adj. [PERPETUAL.] Capable of being perpetuated or continued indefinitely. "Varieties are perpetuable , like species." -Asa Gray. per-pět-u-al, *per-pět-u-all, *per-pe-tu-el, *per-pet-u-ell, a. [Fr. perpétuel , from Lat. per petualis universal, perpetual, from perpetuo to = 3074 infirm, a bill may be filed to perpetuate the testimony of those witne es, although no suit is depending; for, it may be, a man's antagonist only waits for the death of some of them to begin his suit. "By statute 5 & 6 Vict., c. 69, a bill in chancery may be filed by any person who would, under the circumstances alleged by him to exist, become entitled, upon the hap ., praying the perpetuation of any testimony , which may be material for establishing such claim or right."— Black stone: Comment., bk. iii., ch. 17. 1. Never ceasing; continuing forever in future time; unending, eternal, everlasting. 2. Not suffering or subject to ce ation or interruption; unceasing, uninterrupted, unfailing, perennial, constant. 'And in their service wage perpetual war." Cowper : Task , vi. 894. perpetual-annuity, s. An annuity which goes en forever. [TERMINABLE-ANNUITY.] IMG:content-0914.png:[blocks in formation] "As the result of the vain search after the perpetual motion there grew up the greatest of all the generalizations of physical science, the principle of the conservation of energy." -Encyc. Brit . (ed. 9th), xviii. 533. 2. A machine, which, according to the hopes of its inventors, after it has been once set in motion, will keep in motion without drawing on any external source of energy. Such a machine would entirely controvert the established principle of the conservation of energy, and since the establishment of that principle the search for a perpetual motion has been judged visionary. So 1775 the Academie des Sciences of Paris placed the problem in the same category with the duplication of the cube and the quadrature of the circle, and refused to receive schemes claiming to have overcome the difficulty in reality, to have performed the impo ible. The overbalancing wheel was a favorite contrivance with the seekers after a perpetual motion. It appears as early as the thirteenth century. Perpetual motions have been founded on the hydrostatic paradox, on capillary attraction, on electricity and magnetism, but in every case the result has been a failure. IMG:content-0915.jpg:[blocks in formation] perpetual-screw, 8. [ENDLESS-SCREW.] per-pět -u-al-lỹ, *per-pet-u-al-lie, *per-petu-el-ly, adv . [Eng. perpetual ; -ly .] In a perpetual manner; constantly, unceasingly, continuously, ince antly.