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. |
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