PER'PETRATE, verb transitive [Latin perpetro; per and patro, to go through, to finish.] To do; to commit; to perform; in an ill sense, that is, always used to express an evil act; as, to perpetrate a crime or an evil design.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.