perdurable

[Fr., from Lat. perduro = to last: per through, and duro =to last; Sp. perdur able; Ital. per dura bile.] Very lasting, durable, or continuing; everlasting. "The love of God, and the desiring of the joye perdur. able."-Chaucer: Per sones Tale . per-du-ra-bly, adv. [Eng. perdurab ( le ); -ly.] In a perdurable manner; durably; lastingly. "Why would he for the momentary trick Be perdurably fined?" Shakesp.: Measure for Measure, iii. 1. *per-dür-ançe, *per-dur-aunce, *per-dür-ātion, s. [Latin perduro to last.] Long contin. uance; durablene . [PERDURABLE.] "Farre above the per dura unce of heavens." Fisher: Seven Psalms, Ps. cxxxiv., pt. 2. *per-düre', v. i. [Lat. perduro .] To last for a long time; to be perdurable. *per-dy', adv. [PERDIE.] 3063 pěr-e-grine, *per-e-grin, a . & s. [French péré grin , from Lat. peregrin us foreign, from peregre = abroad; Sp. & Ital. peregrino .] *A. As adj .: Foreign; not native; extrinsic; de rived from external sources. "The received opinion, that put rif action as caused by cold or peregrine and preternatural heat, is but nuga tion."- Bacon : Nat. Hist., § 836. B. As subst.: A peregrine falcon. "Still won the girlonds from the peregrin." Browne: Britannia's Pastorals, ii. 23.