PERMANENCE
PER'MANENCEPER'MANENCY, noun [See Permanent.] Continuance in the same state, or without a change that destroys the form or nature of a thing; duration; fixedness; as the permane...
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PERMANENCY
PER'MANENCY, n. [See Permanent.] Continuance in the same state, or without a change that destroys the form or nature of a thing; duration; fixedness; as the permanence of a gove...
PERMANENT
PER'MANENT, adjective [Latin permanens, permaneo, per and maneo, to remain.]Durable; lasting; continuing in the same state, or without any change that destroys the form or natur...
PERMANENTLY
PER'MANENTLY, adverb With long continuance; durably; in a fixed state or place; as a government permanently established.
PERMANSION
PERMAN'SION, noun [Latin permansio.] Continuance. [Not used.]
PERMEABILITY
PERMEABIL'ITY, noun [infra.] The quality or state of being permeable.
PERMEABLE
PER'MEABLE, adjective [Latin permeo; per and meo, to pass or glide.]That may be passed through without rupture or displacement of its parts, as solid matter; applied particularl...
PERMEANT
PER'MEANT, adjective [supra.] Passing through. [Not used.]
PERMEATE
PER'MEATE, verb transitive [Latin permeo; per and meo, to glide, flow, or pass.]To pass through the pores or interstices of a body; to penetrate and pass through a substance wit...
PERMEATED
PER'MEATED, participle passive Passed through, as by a fluid.
PERMEATING
PER'MEATING, participle present tense Passing through the pores or interstices of a substance.
PERMEATION
PERMEA'TION, noun The act of passing through the pores or interstices of a body.
PERMISCIBLE
PERMIS'CIBLE, adjective [Latin permisceo; per and misceo, to mix.]That may be mixed. [Little used.]
PERMISSIBLE
PERMIS'SIBLE, adjective [See Permit.] That may be permitted or allowed.
PERMISSION
PERMIS'SION, noun [Latin permissio, from permitto, to permit.]1. The act of permitting or allowing.2. Allowance; license or liberty granted.You have given me your permission for...
PERMISSIVE
PERMIS'SIVE, adjective Granting liberty; allowing.1. Granted; suffered without hinderance.Thus I emboldened spake, and freedom usedPermissive, and acceptance found.
PERMISSIVELY
PERMIS'SIVELY, adverb By allowance; without prohibition or hinderance.
PERMISTION
PERMIS'TIONPERMIT', verb transitive [Latin permitto; per and mitto, to send.]1. To allow; to grant leave or liberty to by express consent. He asked my leave and I permitted him....
PERMIT
PERMIT', v.t. [L. permitto; per and mitto, to send.]1. To allow; to grant leave or liberty to by express consent. He asked my leave and I permitted him.2. To allow by silent con...
PERMITTANCE
PERMIT'TANCE, noun Allowance; forbearance of prohibition; permission.PERMIXTION. [See Permistion.]
PERMIXTION
PERMIX'TION, noun [Latin permistio, permixtio.] The act of mixing; the state of being mingled.
PERMUTATION
PERMUTA'TION, noun [Latin permutatio, permuto; per and muto, to change.]1. In commerce, exchange of one thing for another; barter.2. In the canon law, the exchange of one benefi...
PERMUTE
PERMU'TE, verb transitive [Latin permuto; per and muto, to change.]To exchange; to barter. [Not used.]
PERMUTER
PERMU'TER, noun One that exchanges. [Not used.]
PERNANCY
PER'NANCY, noun A taking or reception, as the receiving of rents or tithes in kind.
PERNICIOUS
PERNI'CIOUS, adjective [Latin perniciosus, from pernicies; perneco, to kill; per and nex, necis, death.]1. Destructive; having the quality of killing, destroying or injuring; ve...
PERNICIOUSLY
PERNI'CIOUSLY, adverb Destructively; with ruinous tendency or effects.