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Thompson Chain Reference
• Perpetual Statutes
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King James Dictionary
• Perpetually
• Perpetual
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Sisters, Servants of the Holy Ghost of Perpetual a
• Sisters of Our Lady of Perpetual Help
• Religious of Perpetual Adoration
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• Perpetuity
• Perpetuation
• Perpetuating
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Perpetual Motion
• Perpetuity
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Perpetual; Perpetually; Perpetuity
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Adoration, Perpetual.
• Perpetual Curate
• Perpetual Cure
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and of the Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar
• Our Lady of Perpetual Succour
• Perpetual Adoration
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Lamp, Perpetual
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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.