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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. Exodus 30
4. Everlasting endless.

Destructions are come to a perpetual end. Psalms 9

5. During the legal dispensation. Exodus 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.

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Entry for 'Perpetual'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​p/perpetual.html.
 
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