peractt (perakt)

t. [L. per act us, pp. of peragere, thrust through, carry through, accomplish, I would speake nothing to the Cause or Continuance of these wearisome Warres hitherto; the one is enough debated, the other more than enough per acted . N. Ward, Simple Cobler, p. 33. In certain sports called Floral i a divers insolencies and strange villainies were per acted . Sylvester , Summary of Du Bartas (1621), p. 149. (Latham.) peracute (per-a-kut'), a. [L. per a cut us , very sharp, sharp, per- , very, + acutus , sharp: see acute .] Very sharp; very violent. Malign, continual peracute fevers, after most dangerous attacks, suddenly remit of the ardent heat. Harvey. peradventure (per-ad-ven'tur), adv. [ Pruide now and presumpcioun, per - auenture, wole the appele, That Clergye thi compaignye ne kepeth nouzt to sue. Piers Plowman (B), xi. 413. A third hath means, but he wants health peradventure , or wit to manage his estate. Burton , Anat. of Mel., p. 171. Peradventure , had he seen her first, She might have made this and that other world Another world for the sick man. Tennyson, Lance lot and Elaine. (per-ad-ven'tur), n. [ perad Doubt; question; uncertainty. peradventure venture, adv.] For out of all peradventure there are no antinomies with God. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. app. 1. There is no peradventure , but this will amount to as much as the grace of baptism will come to. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), II. 399. peragratet (per'a-grāt), v. t. [Also peregrate; It. peragrare ), travel or pa through or over, wander over; ramble through. Two pillars. which Hercules (when he had pere grated all the worlde as ferre as any lande went) did erecte and set vp for a mem or i all that there he had been. Udall , tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 297. [= F. péra per a grat i on) (per-a-grāʼshon), n. gration, A month of per a grat i on is the time of the moon's revolution from any part of the zodiack unto the sanie again. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iv. 12. perambulate (per-am bū-lāt), v.; pret. and pp. perambulated, ppr. perambulating. [L. per ambulatus, pp. of perambulare, traverse, go through, He got out of bed and perambulated the room for some minutes. Barham, in Memoir prefixed to In golds by Legends, I. 63. 2. To survey while pa ing through; traverse and examine; survey the boundaries of: as, to perambulate a parish or its boundaries. Perca perambulate: see perambulate.] 1. The act of perambulating, or of pa ing or wandering through or over. Then he sent scouts to watch on the sides of the hills thereabouts, and to view the way of their perambulation . North , tr. of Plutarch, p. 181. In the perambulation of Italy young travellers must be cautious, among diuers others, to avoyd one kind of fur Howell , Forreine Travell, p. 43. bery or cheat, whereunto many are subject. 2. A traveling survey or inspection; a survey. Adrian spent his whole reign, which was peaceable, in a perambulation or survey of the Roman empire. Bacon , Advancement of Learning, i. 78. 3. A district within which a person has the right directio It might in point of conscience be demanded by what authority a private person can extend a personal correction beyond the persons and bounds of his own perambu lati on . Holyday. 4. A method used in early Scotch and English history, and thence followed in the colonial period in the United States, of determining and maintaining boundaries and monuments or marks of boundaries between the po e ions of neighboring tenants, and between neighboring parishes, and thus to some extent of deciding disputed tenancies and rights of po e ion, and questions of taxation. It was accomplished chiefly by a rude official survey, usually by parish officers, which involved walking around the tract, following the boundary-line. On Monday last, the justice-seat was kept at Str at ford Lang then, in E ex, where all the judges delivered their opinions that by the perambulation of the 29th of Edward I., and also by a judgment of the king's bench in Richard the second's time, all that part of E ex is forest which was lately delivered to be in the bounds. Court and Times of Charles I. , II. 248. Perambulation of a parish, a custom formerly practised in England and her colonies, but now largely fallen into disuse, by which, once a year, in or about Ascension Week, the minister, churchwardens, and parishioners of a given parish walk about its boundaries for the purpose of preserving accurately the recollection of them. In England also sometimes popularly called beating the bounds. perambulator (per-am'bū-la-tor), n. [ per ambulate + -or1.] 1. One who perambulates. -2. An instrument for measuring distances traveled. See odometer .-3. A small three or four-wheeled carriage for a child, propelled by hand from behind; a baby-carriage. The young man from the country who talks to the nursemaid after she has upset the perambulator . M. Arnold, Friendship's Garland (My Countrymen). perambulatory (per-am'bū-lā-to-ri), a . [ per ambulate + -ory.] Of or relating to perambulation; walking or moving about. His mind took an apparently sharp impre ion from it water-cart), but lost the recollection of this perambu latory shower, before its next reappearance, as completely as did the street itself, along which the heat so quickly strewed white dust again. Hawthorne, Seven Gables, xi. Per a me les (pē-ram'e-lēz), n. [NL. (Geoffroy St. Hilaire), some of which are also Papuan.