pereskia

[Named after Nicholas Pieresk, of Aix-en-Provence, a lover of botany.] Bot.: The typical genus of the family Pereskide. The fruit of Pereskia aculeata , the gooseberry shrub, or Barb a does gooseberry, is eaten. The plant is about fifteen feet high, and grows in the West Indies. The leaves of P. bleo, the Bleo of New Granada, are used as salad. IMG:content-0879.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0880.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0881.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0882.png:[blocks in formation] Per-fec-tib-il-ist, subst . [Eng. perfectibility ): 1. Church Hist . (pl.): A generic designation for any Christians holding the doctrine that perfection is attainable in this life. This doctrine is often supported by a reference to 1 Cor. ii. 6; but there the perfect are those admitted to the highest grace, the Eucharist. But many divines have held that by contemplation and devotion the soul becomes so united to God that all that is sinful in it is annihil- ated, and it participates in the divine perfection. This was held by the Molinists, the Jansenists, the German Mystics, from whom it pa ed to the Eng- lish Methodists. "Perfectibilists in theory are very often Antinomians in practice." -Blunt: Dict . Sects , p. 422. 1. Ord. Lang.: The act or proce of bringing to perfection or completion. 2. Print .: Printing the second side of a sheet. perfecting-pre , s . Print.: A pre in which the paper is printed on both sides before its delivery. Music: An authentic or plagal cadence. (CAcompletene or thoroughne , in which nothing is DENCE.] perfect-concord, s . wanting which is nece ary; perfect skill, develop- ment, or excellence; the highest po ible stage or "Perfect happine results from infinite per- IMG:content-0883.png:[blocks in formation] 4. An inherent attribute of supreme or divine 5. Performance, execution. Shakesp.: Measure for Measure , iii. 1. To perfection : Completely; in the highest, full- est, or most perfect degree; perfectly. "Canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection!" - Job xi. 7. *per-fěc'-tion, v . t . [PERFECTION, 8.] To make perfect; to bring to perfection; to perfect. ( Foote : The Orators, i.) Eccles. & Church History: 1. One who believes in the po ibility of living without sin; a perfectibilist. "Amongst the highest puritan perfectionists , you shall find people, of fifty, threescore and fourscore years old, 2. Completion, ripene , maturity. "In the perfectne of time." citizen. 3. Expre ive of, or characterized by, perfidy, treachery, or breach of faith; proceeding or result- ing from perfidy. IMG:content-0884.png:[blocks in formation] "Thou'st broke perfidiously thy oath." Butler: Hudibras , iii. 1. marine; gō, pot, perfidiousne per-fid-I-ous-ne , s . [Eng. perfidious ; -ne .] The quality or state of being perfidious; perfidy, treachery; breach of faith, trust or confidence reposed. "All the world must have heard of his infamous perjury and perfidiousne ." - Clarendon: Religion and Policy , ch. viii.