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Perpetual   /pərpˈɛtʃuəl/   Listen
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Perpetual  adj.  Neverceasing; continuing forever or for an unlimited time; unfailing; everlasting; continuous. "Unto the kingdom of perpetual night." "Perpetual feast of nectared sweets."
Circle of perpetual apparition, or Circle of perpetual occultation. See under Circle.
Perpetual calendar, a calendar so devised that it may be adjusted for any month or year.
Perpetual curacy (Ch. of Eng.), a curacy in which all the tithes are appropriated, and no vicarage is endowed.
Perpetual motion. See under Motion.
Perpetual screw. See Endless screw, under Screw.
Synonyms: Continual; unceasing; endless; everlasting; incessant; constant; eternal. See Constant.






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... unclear for a decade. A State Treaty signed in 1955 ended the occupation, recognized Austria's independence, and forbade unification with Germany. A constitutional law that same year declared the country's "perpetual neutrality" as a condition for Soviet military withdrawal. Following the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991 and Austria's entry into the European Union in 1995, some Austrian's have called into question this neutrality. A prosperous, democratic country, ...
— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... stretched from the Northern pole southward and from the Southern pole northward, extending in each case far toward the Equator,—and that ice-fields, such as now spread over the Arctics, covered a great part of the Temperate Zones, while the line of perpetual ice and snow in the tropical mountain-ranges descended far below its present limits. As the explanation of these facts has been drawn from the study of glacial action, I shall devote this and subsequent articles to some account of glaciers and ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 • Various

... who was in it but Mrs Desmond and an elderly man, and a young gentleman with an aspect like a lord. It was her husband and son. They had come from Ireland in all their state on purpose to repay with interest the money Mr Cayenne had counted so long lost, and to express in person the perpetual obligation which he had conferred upon the Desmond family, in all time coming. The lady then told him, that she had been so straitened in helping the poor ladies, that it was not in her power to make repayment till Desmond, as she ...
— The Annals of the Parish • John Galt

... by so many imprecations and corroborating circumstances of their invention, as would have staggered one of much greater experience and knowledge of mankind than Mr. A— could be supposed at that time to possess. The notion of perpetual imprisonment, and the certain ruin they made him believe his cause was threatened with, worked upon his imagination to such a degree, that he suffered himself to be led like a lamb to the slaughter by this artful band of villains, ...
— The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume I • Tobias Smollett

... grew to regard as a confirmed traitor was the chief, McGillivray. He was probably quite right in his estimate of the half-breed's character; and, on the other hand, McGillivray doubtless had as an excuse the fact that the perpetual intrigues of Spanish officers, American traders, British adventurers, Creek chiefs who wished peace, and Creek warriors who wished war, made it out of the question for him to follow any settled policy. He wrote to Seagrove: "It is no wonder the Indians are ...
— The Winning of the West, Volume Four - Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 • Theodore Roosevelt


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