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Webster Dictionary :: Peripatetic

PERIPATET'IC, a. [Gr. to walk about.] Pertaining to Aristotle's system of philos...

Webster Dictionary :: Peripateticism

PERIPATET'ICISM, n. The notions or philosophical system of Aristotle and his fol...

Webster Dictionary :: Peripheral

PERIPH'ERAL, a. Peripheric.

Webster Dictionary :: Peripheric

PERIPHER'IC PERIPHER'ICAL, a. Pertaining to a periphery; constituting a periphery.

Webster Dictionary :: Periphery

PERIPH'ERY, n. [Gr. around, and to bear.] The circumference of a circle, ellipsi...

Webster Dictionary :: Periphrase

PER'IPHRASE, n. s as z. [Gr. about, and to speak.] Circumlocution; a circuit of ...

Webster Dictionary :: Periphrasis

PERIPHRASIS. [See Periphrase .]

Webster Dictionary :: Periphrastic

PERIPHRAS'TIC PERIPHRAS'TICAL, a. Circumlocutory; expressing or expressed in mor...

Webster Dictionary :: Periphrastically

PERIPHRAS'TICALLY, adv. With circumlocution.

Webster Dictionary :: Periplus

PER'IPLUS, n. [Gr. about, and to sail.] Circumnavigation; a voyage round a certa...

Webster Dictionary :: Peripneumonic

PERIPNEUMON'IC, a. Pertaining to peripneumony; consisting in an inflammation of ...

Webster Dictionary :: Peripneumony

PERIPNEU'MONY, n. [Gr. about, and the lungs.] An inflammation of the lungs, or o...

Webster Dictionary :: Peripolygonal

PERIPOLYG'ONAL, a. [Gr. polygon.] In crystalography, having a great number of si...

Webster Dictionary :: Periscian

PERIS'CIAN, n. [Gr. around, and shadow.] An inhabitant of a frigid zone or withi...

Webster Dictionary :: Perish

PER'ISH, v.i.[L. pereo, supposed to be compounded of per and eo, to go; literall...

Webster Dictionary :: Perishable

PER'ISHABLE, a. Liable to perish; subject to decay and destruction. The bodies o...

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