PERLOUS — PERSPECTIVE NWAD PERLOUS.1

PERLOUS, for perilous, is not used. NWAD PERLOUS.1

PERLUSTRATION, n. [L. perlustro; per and lustro, to survey.] NWAD PERLUSTRATION.1

The act of viewing all over. NWAD PERLUSTRATION.2

PERMAGY, n. A little Turkish boat. NWAD PERMAGY.1

PERMANENCE, PERMANENCY, 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 government or state; the permanence of institutions or of a system of principles. NWAD PERMANENCE.1

1. Continuance in the same place or at rest. NWAD PERMANENCE.2

PERMANENT, a. [L. permanens, permaneo, per and maneo, to remain.] NWAD PERMANENT.1

Durable; lasting; continuing in the same state, or without any change that destroys the form or nature of the thing. The laws, like the character of God, are unalterably permanent. Human laws and institutions may be to a degree permanent, but they are subject to change and overthrow. We speak of a permanent wall or building, a permanent bridge, when they are so constructed as to endure long; in which examples, permanent is equivalent to durable or lasting, but not to undecaying or unalterable. So we say, a permanent residence, a permanent intercourse, permanent friendship, when it continues a long time without interruption. NWAD PERMANENT.2

PERMANENTLY, adv. With long continuance; durably; in a fixed state or place; as a government permanently established. NWAD PERMANENTLY.1

PERMANSION, n. [L. permansio.] Continuance. [Not used.] NWAD PERMANSION.1

PERMEABILITY, n. [infra.] The quality or state of being permeable. NWAD PERMEABILITY.1

PERMEABLE, a. [L. permeo; per and meo, to pass or glide.] NWAD PERMEABLE.1

That may be passed through without rupture or displacement of its parts, as solid matter; applied particularly to substances that admit the passage of fluids. Thus cloth, leather, wood are permeable to water and oil; glass is permeable to light, but not to water. NWAD PERMEABLE.2

PERMEANT, a. [supra.] Passing through. [Not used.] NWAD PERMEANT.1

PERMEATE, v.t. [L. permeo; per and meo, to glide, flow, or pass.] NWAD PERMEATE.1

To pass through the pores or interstices of a body; to penetrate and pass through a substance without rupture or displacement of its parts; applied particularly to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture; as, water permeates sand or a filtering stone; light permeates glass. NWAD PERMEATE.2

PERMEATED, pp. Passed through, as by a fluid. NWAD PERMEATED.1

PERMEATING, ppr. Passing through the pores or interstices of a substance. NWAD PERMEATING.1

PERMEATION, n. The act of passing through the pores or interstices of a body. NWAD PERMEATION.1

PERMISCIBLE, a. [L. permisceo; per and misceo, to mix.] NWAD PERMISCIBLE.1

That may be mixed. [Little used.] NWAD PERMISCIBLE.2

PERMISSIBLE, a. [See Permit.] That may be permitted or allowed. NWAD PERMISSIBLE.1

PERMISSION, n. [L. permissio, from permitto, to permit.] NWAD PERMISSION.1

1. The act of permitting or allowing. NWAD PERMISSION.2

2. Allowance; license or liberty granted. NWAD PERMISSION.3

You have given me your permission for this address. NWAD PERMISSION.4

PERMISSIVE, a. Granting liberty; allowing. NWAD PERMISSIVE.1

1. Granted; suffered without hinderance. NWAD PERMISSIVE.2

Thus I emboldened spake, and freedom used NWAD PERMISSIVE.3

Permissive, and acceptance found. NWAD PERMISSIVE.4

PERMISSIVELY, adv. By allowance; without prohibition or hinderance. NWAD PERMISSIVELY.1

PERMISTION, PERMIXTION, n. [L. permistio, permixtio.] The act of mixing; the state of being mingled. NWAD PERMISTION.1

PERMIT, v.t. [L. permitto; per and mitto, to send.] NWAD PERMIT.1

1. To allow; to grant leave or liberty to by express consent. He asked my leave and I permitted him. NWAD PERMIT.2

2. To allow by silent consent or by not prohibiting; to suffer without giving express authority. The laws permit us to do what is not expressly or impliedly forbid. NWAD PERMIT.3

What God neither commands nor forbids, he permits with approbation to be done or left undone. NWAD PERMIT.4

3. To afford ability or means. Old age does not permit us to retain the vigor of youth. The man’s indigence does not permit him to indulge in luxuries. NWAD PERMIT.5

4. To leave; to give or resign. NWAD PERMIT.6

Let us not aggravate our sorrows, NWAD PERMIT.7

But to the gods permit the event of things. NWAD PERMIT.8

[The latter sense is obsolete or obsolescent.] NWAD PERMIT.9

PERMIT, n. A written license or permission from the custom house officer or other proper authority, to export or transport goods or to land goods or persons. NWAD PERMIT.10

1. Warrant; leave; permission. NWAD PERMIT.11

PERMITTANCE, n. Allowance; forbearance of prohibition; permission. NWAD PERMITTANCE.1

PERMIXTION. [See Permistion.] NWAD PERMIXTION.1

PERMUTATION, n. [L. permutatio, permuto; per and muto, to change.] NWAD PERMUTATION.1

1. In commerce, exchange of one thing for another; barter. NWAD PERMUTATION.2

2. In the canon law, the exchange of one benefice for another. NWAD PERMUTATION.3

3. In algebra, change or different combination of any number of quantities. NWAD PERMUTATION.4

PERMUTE, v.t. [L. permuto; per and muto, to change.] NWAD PERMUTE.1

To exchange; to barter. [Not used.] NWAD PERMUTE.2

PERMUTER, n. One that exchanges. [Not used.] NWAD PERMUTER.1

PERNANCY, n. A taking or reception, as the receiving of rents or tithes in kind. NWAD PERNANCY.1

PERNICIOUS, a. [L. perniciosus, from pernicies; perneco, to kill; per and nex, necis, death.] NWAD PERNICIOUS.1

1. Destructive; having the quality of killing, destroying or injuring; very injurious or mischievous. Food, drink or air may be pernicious to life or health. NWAD PERNICIOUS.2

2. Destructive; tending to injure or destroy. Evil examples are pernicious to morals. Intemperance is a pernicious vice. NWAD PERNICIOUS.3

3. [L. pernix.] Quick. [Not used.] NWAD PERNICIOUS.4

PERNICIOUSLY, adv. Destructively; with ruinous tendency or effects. NWAD PERNICIOUSLY.1

PERNICIOUSNESS, n. The quality of being very injurious, mischievous or destructive. NWAD PERNICIOUSNESS.1

PERNICITY, n. [L. pernicitas, from pernix.] NWAD PERNICITY.1

Swiftness of motion; celerity. [Little used.] NWAD PERNICITY.2

PERNOCTATION, n. [L. pernocto; per and nox, night.] NWAD PERNOCTATION.1

The act of passing the whole night; a remaining all night. NWAD PERNOCTATION.2

PEROGUE. [See Pirogue.] NWAD PEROGUE.1

PERORATION, n. [L. peroratio, from peroro; per and oro, to pray.] NWAD PERORATION.1

The concluding part of an oration, in which the speaker recapitulates the principal points of his discourse or argument, and urges them with greater earnestness and force, with a view to make a deep impression on his hearers. NWAD PERORATION.2

PEROXYD, n. [per and oxyd.] A substance containing an unusual quantity of oxygen. NWAD PEROXYD.1

PEROXYDIZE, v.t. To oxydize to the utmost degree. NWAD PEROXYDIZE.1

PERPEND, v.t. [L. perpendo; per and pendo, to weigh.] NWAD PERPEND.1

To weigh in the mind; to consider attentively. [Little used.] NWAD PERPEND.2

PERPENDER, n. A coping stone. NWAD PERPENDER.1

PERPENDICLE, n. [L. perpendiculum.] NWAD PERPENDICLE.1

Something hanging down in a direct line; a plumb line. NWAD PERPENDICLE.2

PERPENDICULAR, a. [L. perpendicularis, from perpendiculum, a plumb line; perpendeo; per and pendeo, to hang.] NWAD PERPENDICULAR.1

1. Hanging or extending in a right line from any point towards the center of the earth or of gravity, or at right angles with the plane of the horizon. NWAD PERPENDICULAR.2

2. In geometry, falling directly on another line at right angles. The line A is perpendicular to the line B. NWAD PERPENDICULAR.3

PERPENDICULAR, n. A line falling at right angles on the plane of the horizon, that is, extending from some point in a right line towards the center of the earth or center of gravity, or any body standing in that direction. NWAD PERPENDICULAR.4

1. In geometry, a line falling at right angles on another line, or making equal angles with it on each side. NWAD PERPENDICULAR.5

PERPENDICULARITY, n. The state of being perpendicular. NWAD PERPENDICULARITY.1

PERPENDICULARLY, adv. In a manner to fall on another line at right angles. NWAD PERPENDICULARLY.1

1. So as to fall on the plane of the horizon at right angles; in a direction towards the center of the earth or of gravity. NWAD PERPENDICULARLY.2

PERPENSION, n. [L. perpendo.] Consideration. [Not used.] NWAD PERPENSION.1

PERPESSION, n. [L. perpessio, perpetior, to suffer; per and patior.] NWAD PERPESSION.1

Suffering; endurance. [Not used.] NWAD PERPESSION.2

PERPETRATE, v.t. [L. 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. NWAD PERPETRATE.1

PERPETRATED, pp. Done; committed; as an evil act. NWAD PERPETRATED.1

PERPETRATING, ppr. Committing; as a crime or evil act. NWAD PERPETRATING.1

PERPETRATION, n. The act of committing a crime. NWAD PERPETRATION.1

1. An evil action. NWAD PERPETRATION.2

PERPETRATOR, n. One that commits a crime. NWAD PERPETRATOR.1

PERPETUAL, a. [L. perpetuus, from perpes, perpetis; per and pes, from a root signifying to pass.] NWAD PERPETUAL.1

1. Never ceasing; continuing forever in future time; destined to be eternal; as a perpetual covenant; a perpetual statute. NWAD PERPETUAL.2

[Literally true with respect to the decrees of the Supreme Being.] NWAD PERPETUAL.3

2. Continuing or continued without intermission; uninterrupted; as a perpetual stream; the perpetual action of the heart and arteries. NWAD PERPETUAL.4

3. Permanent; fixed; not temporary; as a perpetual law or edict; perpetual love or amity, perpetual incense. Exodus 30:8. NWAD PERPETUAL.5

4. Everlasting; endless. NWAD PERPETUAL.6

Destructions are come to a perpetual end. Psalm 9:6. NWAD PERPETUAL.7

5. During the legal dispensation. Exodus 29:9. NWAD PERPETUAL.8

Perpetual curacy, is where all the tithes are appropriated and no vicarage is endowed. NWAD PERPETUAL.9

Perpetual motion, motion that generates a power of continuing itself forever or indefinitely, by means of mechanism or some application of the force of gravity; not yet discovered, and probably impossible. NWAD PERPETUAL.10

Perpetual screw, a screw that acts against the teeth of a wheel and continues its action without end. NWAD PERPETUAL.11

PERPETUALLY, adv. Constantly; continually; applied to things which proceed without intermission, or which occur frequently or at intervals, without limitation. A perennial spring flows perpetually; the weather varies perpetually. NWAD PERPETUALLY.1

The Bible and common prayer book in the vulgar tongue, being perpetually read in churches, have proved a kind of standard for language. NWAD PERPETUALLY.2

PERPETUATE, v.t. [L. perpetuo.] To make perpetual; to eternize. NWAD PERPETUATE.1

1. To cause to endure or to be continued indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; as, to perpetuate the remembrance of a great event or of an illustrious character. The monument in London perpetuates the remembrance of the conflagration in 1666. Medals may perpetuate the glories of a prince. NWAD PERPETUATE.2

2. To continue by repetition without limitation. NWAD PERPETUATE.3

PERPETUATED, pp. Made perpetual; continued through eternity, or for an indefinite time. NWAD PERPETUATED.1

PERPETUATING, ppr. Continuing forever or indefinitely. NWAD PERPETUATING.1

PERPETUATION, n. The act of making perpetual, or of preserving from extinction or oblivion through an endless existence, or for an indefinite period of time. NWAD PERPETUATION.1

PERPETUITY, n. [L. perpetuitas.] Endless duration; continuance to eternity. NWAD PERPETUITY.1

1. Continued uninterrupted existence, or duration for an indefinite period of time; as the perpetuity of laws and institutions; the perpetuity of fame. NWAD PERPETUITY.2

2. Something of which there will be no end. NWAD PERPETUITY.3

PERPHOSPHATE, n. A phosphate in which the phosphoric acid is combined with an oxyd at the maximum of oxydation. NWAD PERPHOSPHATE.1

PERPLEX, v.t. [L. perplexus, perplexor; per and plector, to twist; L. plico, to fold.] NWAD PERPLEX.1

1. To make intricate; to involve; to entangle; to make complicated and difficult to be understood or unraveled. NWAD PERPLEX.2

What was thought obscure, perplexed and too hard for our weak parts, will lie open to the understanding in a fair view. NWAD PERPLEX.3

2. To embarrass; to puzzle; to distract; to tease with suspense, anxiety or ambiguity. NWAD PERPLEX.4

We can distinguish no general truths, or at least shall be apt to perplex the mind. NWAD PERPLEX.5

We are perplexed, but not in despair. 2 Corinthians 4:8. NWAD PERPLEX.6

3. To plague; to vex. NWAD PERPLEX.7

PERPLEX, a. Intricate; difficult. [Not used.] NWAD PERPLEX.8

PERPLEXED, pp. Made intricate; embarrassed; puzzled. NWAD PERPLEXED.1

PERPLEXEDLY, adv. Intricately; with involution. NWAD PERPLEXEDLY.1

PERPLEXEDNESS, n. Intricacy; difficulty from want of order or precision. NWAD PERPLEXEDNESS.1

1. Embarrassment of mind from doubt or uncertainty. NWAD PERPLEXEDNESS.2

PERLEXITY, n. Intricacy; entanglement. The jury were embarrassed by the perplexity of the case. NWAD PERLEXITY.1

1. Embarrassment of mind; disturbance from doubt, confusion, difficulty or anxiety. NWAD PERLEXITY.2

Perplexity not suffering them to be idle, they think and do, as it were, in a frenzy. NWAD PERLEXITY.3

PERQUADRISULPHATE, n. A sulphate with four proportions of sulphuric acid combined with a maximum oxyd. NWAD PERQUADRISULPHATE.1

PERQUISITE, n. s as z. [L. perquisitus, perquiro; per and quoero, to seek.] A fee or pecuniary allowance to an officer for services, beyond his ordinary salary or settled wages; or a fee allowed by law to an officer for a specific service, in lieu of an annual salary. [The latter is the common acceptation of the word in American.] NWAD PERQUISITE.1

PERQUISITED, a. Supplied with perquisites. [A bad word and not used.] NWAD PERQUISITED.1

PERQUISITION, n. s as z. [L. perquisitus.] NWAD PERQUISITION.1

An accurate inquiry or search. NWAD PERQUISITION.2

PERROQUET, n. A species of parrot; also, the Alca Psittacula, an aquatic fowl inhabiting the isles of Japan and the western shores of American. NWAD PERROQUET.1

PERRY, n. The juice of pears, which being clarified by fermentation, is a pleasant drink. NWAD PERRY.1

PERSCRUTATION, n. [L. perscrutatio, perscrutor.] NWAD PERSCRUTATION.1

A searching thoroughly; minute search or inquiry. NWAD PERSCRUTATION.2

PERSECUTE, v.t. [L. persequor; per and sequor, to pursue. See Seek and Essay.] NWAD PERSECUTE.1

1. In a general sense, to pursue in a manner to injure, vex or afflict; to harass with unjust punishment or penalties for supposed offenses; to inflict pain from hatred or malignity. NWAD PERSECUTE.2

2. Appropriately, to afflict, harass, or destroy for adherence to a particular creed or system of religious principles, or to a mode of worship. Thus Nero persecuted the Christians by crucifying some, burning others, and condemning others to be worried by dogs. See Acts 22:4. NWAD PERSECUTE.3

3. To harass with solicitations or importunity. NWAD PERSECUTE.4

PERSECUTED, pp. Harassed by troubles or punishments unjustly inflicted, particularly for religious opinions. NWAD PERSECUTED.1

PERSECUTING, ppr. Pursuing with enmity or vengeance, particularly for adhering to a particular religion. NWAD PERSECUTING.1

PERSECUTION, n. The act or practice of persecuting; the infliction of pain, punishment or death upon others unjustly, particularly for adhering to a religious creed or mode of worship, either by way of penalty or for compelling them to renounce their principles. Historians enumerate ten persecutions suffered by the Christians, beginning with that of Nero, A.D. 31, and ending with that of Diocletian, A.D. 303 to 313. NWAD PERSECUTION.1

1. The state of being persecuted. NWAD PERSECUTION.2

Our necks are under persecution; we labor and have no rest. Lamentations 5:5. NWAD PERSECUTION.3

PERSECUTOR, n. One that persecutes; one that pursues another unjustly and vexatiously, particularly on account of religious principles. NWAD PERSECUTOR.1

Henry rejected the pope’s supremacy, but retained every corruption beside, and became a cruel persecutor. NWAD PERSECUTOR.2

PERSEVERANCE, n. [L. perseverantia. See Persevere.] NWAD PERSEVERANCE.1

1. Persistence in any thing undertaken; continued pursuit or prosecution of any business or enterprise begun; applied alike to good or evil. NWAD PERSEVERANCE.2

Perseverance keeps honor bright. NWAD PERSEVERANCE.3

Patience and perseverance overcome the greatest difficulties. NWAD PERSEVERANCE.4

2. In theology, continuance in a state of grace to a state of glory; sometimes called final perseverance. NWAD PERSEVERANCE.5

PERSEVERANT, a. Constant in pursuit of an undertaking. [Not used.] NWAD PERSEVERANT.1

PERSEVERE, v.i. [L. persevero. The last component part of this word, severo, must be the same as in assevero, with the radical sense of set, fixed or continued. So persist is formed with per and sisto, to stand. Constant and continue have a like primary sense. So we say, to hold on.] NWAD PERSEVERE.1

To persist in any business or enterprise undertaken; to pursue steadily any design or course commenced; not to give over or abandon what is undertaken; applied alike to good and evil. NWAD PERSEVERE.2

Thrice happy, if they know NWAD PERSEVERE.3

Their happiness, and persevere upright! NWAD PERSEVERE.4

To persevere in any evil course, makes you unhappy in this life. NWAD PERSEVERE.5

PERSEVERING, ppr. Persisting in any business or course begun. NWAD PERSEVERING.1

1. a. Constant in the execution of a purpose or enterprise; as a persevering student. NWAD PERSEVERING.2

PERSEVERINGLY, adv. With perseverance or continued pursuit of what is undertaken. NWAD PERSEVERINGLY.1

PERSIFLAGE, n. [L. sibilo, to hiss.] A jeering; ridicule. NWAD PERSIFLAGE.1

PERSIMMON, n. A tree and its fruit, a species of Diospyros, a native of the states south of New York. The fruit is like a plum, and when not ripe, very astringent. NWAD PERSIMMON.1

PERSIST, v.i. [L. persisto; per and sisto, to stand or be fixed.] NWAD PERSIST.1

To continue steadily and firmly in the pursuit of any business or course commenced; to persevere. [Persist is nearly synonymous with persevere; but persist frequently implies more obstinacy than persevere, particularly in that which is evil or injurious to others.] NWAD PERSIST.2

If they persist in pointing their batteries against particular persons, no laws of war forbid the making reprisals. NWAD PERSIST.3

PERSISTENCE, n. The state of persisting; steady pursuit of what is undertaken; perseverance in a good or evil course, more generally in that which is evil and injurious to others, or unadvisable. NWAD PERSISTENCE.1

1. Obstinacy; contumacy. NWAD PERSISTENCE.2

PERSISTENT, PERSISTING, a. In botany, continuing without withering; opposed to marcescent; as a persisting stigma; continuing after the corol is withered, as a persistent calyx; continuing after the leaves drop off, as a persistent stipule; remaining on the plant till the fruit is ripe, or till after the summer is over, as a persistent leaf. NWAD PERSISTENT.1

PERSISTING, ppr. Continuing in the prosecution of an undertaking; persevering. NWAD PERSISTING.1

PERSISTIVE, a. Steady in pursuit; not receding from a purpose or undertaking; persevering. NWAD PERSISTIVE.1

PERSON, n. per’sn. [L. persona; said to be compounded of per, through or by, and sonus, sound; a Latin word signifying primarily a mask used by actors on the state.] NWAD PERSON.1

1. An individual human being consisting of body and soul. We apply the word to living beings only, possessed of a rational nature; the body when dead is not called a person. It is applied alike to a man, woman or child. NWAD PERSON.2

A person is a thinking intelligent being. NWAD PERSON.3

2. A man, woman or child, considered as opposed to things, or distinct from them. NWAD PERSON.4

A zeal for persons is far more easy to be perverted, than a zeal for things. NWAD PERSON.5

3. A human being, considered with respect to the living body or corporeal existence only. The form of her person is elegant. NWAD PERSON.6

You’ll find her person difficult to gain. NWAD PERSON.7

The rebels maintained the fight for a small time, and for their persons showed no want of courage. NWAD PERSON.8

4. A human being, indefinitely; one; a man. Let a person’s attainments be never so great, he should remember he is frail and imperfect. NWAD PERSON.9

5. A human being represented in dialogue, fiction, or on the state; character. A player appears in the person of king Lear. NWAD PERSON.10

These tables, Cicero pronounced under the person of Crassus, were of more use and authority than all the books of the philosophers. NWAD PERSON.11

6. Character of office. NWAD PERSON.12

How different is the same man from himself, as he sustains the person of a magistrate and that of a friend. NWAD PERSON.13

7. In grammar, the nominative to a verb; the agent that performs or the patient that suffers any thing affirmed by a verb; as, I write; he is smitten; she is beloved; the rain descends in torrents. I, thou or you, he, she or it, are called the first, second and third persons. Hence we apply the word person to the termination or modified form of the verb used in connection with the persons; as the first or the third person of the verb; the verb is in the second person. NWAD PERSON.14

8. In law, an artificial person, is a corporation or body politic. NWAD PERSON.15

In person, by one’s self; with bodily presence; not be representative. NWAD PERSON.16

The king in person visits all around. NWAD PERSON.17

PERSON, v.t. To represent as a person; to make to resemble; to image. [Not in use.] NWAD PERSON.18

PERSONABLE, a. Having a well formed body or person; graceful; of good appearance; as a personable man or woman. NWAD PERSONABLE.1

1. In law, enabled to maintain pleas in court. NWAD PERSONABLE.2

2. Having capacity to take any thing granted or given. NWAD PERSONABLE.3

[The two latter senses, I believe, are little used.] NWAD PERSONABLE.4

PERSONAGE, n. A man or woman of distinction; as an illustrious personage. NWAD PERSONAGE.1

1. Exterior appearance; stature; air; as a tall personage; a stately personage. NWAD PERSONAGE.2

2. Character assumed. NWAD PERSONAGE.3

The Venetians, naturally grave, love to give in to the follies of such seasons, when disguised in a false personage. NWAD PERSONAGE.4

3. Character represented. NWAD PERSONAGE.5

Some persons must be found, already known in history, whom we may make the actors and personages of this fable. NWAD PERSONAGE.6

PERSONAL, a. [L. personalis.] Belonging to men or women, not to things; not real. NWAD PERSONAL.1

Every man so termed by way of personal difference only. NWAD PERSONAL.2

1. Relating to an individual; affecting individuals; peculiar or proper to him or her, or to private actions or character. NWAD PERSONAL.3

The words are conditional; if thou doest well; and so personal to Cain. NWAD PERSONAL.4

Character and success depend more on personal effort than on any external advantages. NWAD PERSONAL.5

So we speak of personal pride, personal reflections. NWAD PERSONAL.6

2. Pertaining to the corporal nature; exterior; corporal; as personal charms or accomplishments. NWAD PERSONAL.7

3. Present in person; not acting by representative; as a personal interview. NWAD PERSONAL.8

The immediate and personal speaking of God almighty to Abraham, Job and Moses. NWAD PERSONAL.9

Personal estate, in law, movables; chattels; things belonging to the person; as money, jewels, furniture, etc. as distinguished from real estate in land and houses. NWAD PERSONAL.10

Personal action, in law, a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property; an action founded on contract or on tort or wrong; as an action on a debt or promise, or an action for a trespass, assault or defamatory words; opposed to real actions, or such as concern real property. NWAD PERSONAL.11

Personal identity, in metaphysics, sameness of being, of which consciousness is the evidence. NWAD PERSONAL.12

Personal verb, in grammar, a verb conjugated in the three persons; thus called in distinction from an impersonal verb, which has the third person only. NWAD PERSONAL.13

PERSONAL, n. A movable. [Not in use.] NWAD PERSONAL.14

PERSONALITY, n. That which constitutes an individual a distinct person, or that which constitutes individuality. NWAD PERSONALITY.1

The personality of an intelligent being extends itself beyond present existence to what is past, only by consciousness-- NWAD PERSONALITY.2

1. Direct application or applicability to a person; as the personality of a remark. NWAD PERSONALITY.3

PERSONALLY, adv. In person; by bodily presence; not by representative or substitute; as, to be personally present; to deliver a letter personally. They personally declared their assent to the measure. NWAD PERSONALLY.1

1. With respect to an individual; particularly. NWAD PERSONALLY.2

She bore a mortal hatred to the house of Lancaster, and personally to the king. NWAD PERSONALLY.3

2. With regard to numerical existence. NWAD PERSONALLY.4

The converted man is personally the same he was before. NWAD PERSONALLY.5

PERSONATE, v.t. To represent by a fictitious or assumed character so as to pass for the person represented. NWAD PERSONATE.1

1. To represent by action or appearance; to assume the character and act the part of another. NWAD PERSONATE.2

2. To pretend hypocritically. [Little used.] NWAD PERSONATE.3

3. To counterfeit; to feign; as a personated devotion. NWAD PERSONATE.4

4. To resemble. NWAD PERSONATE.5

The lofty cedar personates thee. NWAD PERSONATE.6

5. To make a representation of, as in picture. NWAD PERSONATE.7

6. To describe. NWAD PERSONATE.8

7. To celebrate loudly. [L. persono.] [Not used.] NWAD PERSONATE.9

PERSONATE, a. [L. persona, a mask.] Masked. A personate corol is irregular and closed by a kind of palate; or ringent, but closed between the lips by the palate. NWAD PERSONATE.10

PERSONATION, n. The counterfeiting of the person and character of another. NWAD PERSONATION.1

PERSONATOR, n. One who assumes the character of another. NWAD PERSONATOR.1

1. One that acts or performs. NWAD PERSONATOR.2

PERSONIFICATION, n. [from personify.] The giving to an inanimate being the figure or the sentiments and language of a rational being; prosopopoeia; as, “confusion heard his voice.” NWAD PERSONIFICATION.1

PERSONIFIED, pp. Represented with the attributes of a person. NWAD PERSONIFIED.1

PERSONIFY, v.t. [L. persona and facio.] To give animation to inanimate objects; to ascribe to an inanimate being the sentiments, actions or language of a rational being or person, or to represent an inanimate being with the affections and actions of a person. Thus we say, the plants thirst for rain. NWAD PERSONIFY.1

The trees said to the fig-tree, come thou, and reign over us. Judges 9:10. NWAD PERSONIFY.2

PERSONIFYING, ppr. Giving to an inanimate being the attributes of a person. NWAD PERSONIFYING.1

PERSONIZE, v.t. To personify. [Not much used.] NWAD PERSONIZE.1

PERSPECTIVE, a. [infra.] Pertaining to the science of optics; optical. NWAD PERSPECTIVE.1

1. Pertaining to the art of perspective. NWAD PERSPECTIVE.2

PERSPECTIVE, n. [L. perspicio; per and specio, to see.] NWAD PERSPECTIVE.3

1. A glass through which objects are viewed. NWAD PERSPECTIVE.4

2. The art of drawing on a plane surface true resemblances or pictures of objects, as the objects appear to the eye from any distance and situation, real and imaginary; as the rules of perspective. NWAD PERSPECTIVE.5

3. A representation of objects in perspective. NWAD PERSPECTIVE.6

4. View; vista; as perspectives of pleasant shades. NWAD PERSPECTIVE.7

5. A kind of painting, often seen in gardens and at the end of a gallery, designed expressly to deceive the sight by representing the continuation of an alley, a building, a landscape or the like. NWAD PERSPECTIVE.8

Aerial perspective, the art of giving due diminution to the strength of light, shade and colors of objects, according to their distances and the quantity of light falling on them, and to the medium through which they are seen. NWAD PERSPECTIVE.9