KJV Dictionary Definition: perpetual

perpetual

PERPET'UAL, a. L. perpetuus, from perpes, perpetis; per and pes, from a root signifying to pass.

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

Literally true with respect to the decrees of the Supreme Being.

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

3. Permanent; fixed; not temporary; as a perpetual law or edict; perpetual love or amity, perpetual incense. Ex.30.

4. Everlasting; endless.

Destructions are come to a perpetual end. Ps.9.

5. During the legal dispensation. Ex.29.

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

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.

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

perpetually

PERPET'UALLY, 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.

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

perpetuate

PERPET'UATE, v.t. L. perpetuo. To make perpetual; to eternize.

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.

2. To continue by repetition without limitation.

perpetuated

PERPET'UATED, pp. Made perpetual; continued through eternity, or for an indefinite time.

perpetuating

PERPET'UATING, ppr. Continuing forever or indefinitely.

perpetuation

PERPETUA'TION, n. The act of making perpetual, or of preserving from extinction or oblivion through an endless existence, or for an indefinite period of time.

perpetuity

PERPETU'ITY, n. L.perpetuitas. Endless duration; continuance to eternity.

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

2. Something of which there will be no end.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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