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Show PiE BR I feel hunger Watts onfeious of any thing; as whe thirft, cold, or heat. i obfervation ,. The aé of perceiving 3. Notion ; idea By the inventors, and their followers that woul th o o t e r p th o o f to m c t feem no Ha{u's Origin of Mank Jeaders, they are magnified flat Lh by fome affeCte of bein thing M <4 fpo Great mountains have a perce/ tion of the d fition of the air to tempefts fooner than the vallie below an therefor the This experiment difcoveret to move towards that which fhould comfort them Bacon though at a diftance PERCE'PTIVE. adj. [ perceptus, Latin. Having the power of perceiving is-a difficult the foul i that pincheth awake and follicited by external motions fo fom of them reach the ferceptive region in the mof filent repofe and obfcurity of night: what is i Glanwille then that prevents our fenfations Whatever the leaft real point of the effence o the perceptive part of the foul does perceive, ever Th More's Divine Dialogues ¥ PERCEPTIVITY #z. / [from perceptive. Pe'rcrose clafion The power of perception or thinking 31117 Prrecue 2.fo [perca, Lating perche, Fr. Th perch is one of the fithes of prey like the pik an trout, carrie hi tha teeth in hi on his back: he fpawns but once a year, and i held very nutritive Woalton's Angler PerCH. 2. /. [ pertica, Latin ; perche, Fr. 1. A meafure of five yards and an half a pole 2, [perche, Fr. Something on whic birds rooft or fit For the narrow perch T cannot ride the noun. To fit or rooft as a bird He gercheth on fome branch thereby To weather him and his moift wings to dry. Spenf The world is grown fo bad That wrens make prey, where eagles dare not gerch Shake[peare The morning mufes perch like birds, and fin Among his branches Crafbazv Let owls keep clofe within the tree, and not perc upon the upper boughs South They wing'd their flight aloft, then ftooping low Perch'd on the double tree, that bears the golde bough Dryden Clory, like the dazzling eagle, ftoo Perch'd on my beve in the Grani floo When fortune's felf my ftandard trembling bore And the pale fates ftood frighted on the fhore. Lce Hofts of birds that wing the liquid air Perch'din the boughs, had nightly lodging there ToPercH Diryden v. 4 To place on a perch It would be notorioufly perceptible if you coul ferch yourfelf as a bird ‘on the top of fome hig More etplA c As evening dragon came Affailant on the perched roofts And nefts in order rang' Of fome villatic fowl Milton's Agoniftes PErcHA N Perhaps adv. [te peradventure an chance. How long within this wood intend you fta ? -‘]I:‘t'l‘F%?amr.tm after Thefeus' wedding day rath‘err‘dmg him by‘ natare little ftudious Shak fhe chof fo endue him with ornaments of yout j a Nioz.. XT th fol . / percipient Raleigh's Hiftory [ This word adv PE'RDUE among us is adverbially taken hat whic [per and clofe. laft part 70 PE'RCOLATE Con Few minutes he had lain gerdue To guard his defp'rate avenue Obfolete Pe'rpuLrous «.a [percolo, Lat. Pe'RDURABLE. adj. [ perdurable, French perduro, Lat.] Lafting; long continued perdurable toughnefs PerD1'TION. 7. /. [ perditio, Latin; perdition, French.] 1. Deftru&ion; ruin death Upon tidings.now arrived importin the mee Shake Doth lend the lively fprings their perdurable heat Pe'RDURABLY Drayton adv [from pgerdurable. Laftingly Why would he, for the momentary trick Shak. Meafure for Meafure Be perdurably fin'd Perpura'rion. #. /. [ perduro, Latin. Long continuance Ainfworth PERE'GAL. adj. [Fr.] Equal. Obfolete With thy grim looks, an The thunder-like percuffion of thy founds Thou mad'ft thine enemies thake Shakefpeare The percuffion of the greater quantity of air i produced by the greatnefs of the body percufiing Inequality of founds is accid ital, either fro the roughnefs or obliquity of the pafiage, or fro Bacon the doubling of the percutient let's ftab ourfelves The vig'rous {wea Percu'ssion. z.f. [percufio, Lat. percuffion, French. 1. The aét of firiking; ftroke P ERCU'TIENT. #./. 7[fercutiens, s Latin. Striking; having the power to firike Shake[peare's Otbells O perdurable fhame Flame percuffed by air giveth a noife; as in blowing of the fire by bellows; and fo likewife flam percuffing the air frrongly Bacon In double rhymes the perciffion is fronger. R ac Confefs me knit to thy deferving with cables o Latin. 2. Effe& of {ound in the ear accente no ufe not i cording to analogy Water paffing through the veins of the earth i rendered freth and potable, which it cannot be b any percolations we can make, but the faline particles will pafs through a tenfold filtre Ray place of percuffion in' concentric {pheres t diftances Neavton's Opi Marbles taught him percuffion and the laws o motion, and tops the centrifugal motion. Arbuth wor Experiments touching the ftraining and paffin of bodies one through another, they call percolation Bacon Bacon Some note, that the times when the ftroke o percuffion of an envious eye doth moft hurt are when the party envied is beheld in gloty Bacon The vibrations or tremors excited in the ai percuffion, continue a little time to move fic n th away of known impoffibilities; as a man who hat committed an offence, may wifh he had not committed it: but to chufe efficaciouily and impoflibly Bramball is as impofiible as an impofiibility Percora'rron. #. /o [from percolate. The a& of ftraining; purification o feparation by ftraining PErQu'ss. w. a. [percufus To frike Tudibras There may be fome wandering perdulons withe The evidences of fa& are percolated through Hale's Origin of Mankind vaft period of ages Z cen [from perdo, Latin. adj Loft ; throw Raleigh forlor in ambufh Clofe tinel. come advance o perdu as whic o perdue Frenc th To {train through Dryden To PercH. w. n. [ percher, French ; fro As life and death, mercy and wrath, are mattion and fom 1en's ters_ of knowledge s {o oppofite, tha men's endlefs whoever doth affirm the one, muft neceflarily den Hocker the other Men once fallen away from undoubted truth do after wander for ever more in vices unknown and daily travel towards their eternal perdition has th revengement mouth: he dare venture to kill and deftroy fevera other kinds of fith : he has a hooked or hog back which is armed with fiff briftles, and all his fki armed with thick hard fcales, and hath two fin 3. Eternal death By the perclefe of the fame verfe, vagabond i underftood for fuch an one as travelleth in fear o Locke i Shakefpeare's Tenmpeft faw'ft fink Tho animadverfion and fenfe properly fo called, and th body is only the receiver of corporeal impreflions Glanwille's Sce* fis Nothing in the extended percipient perceives th More's Divine Dialogues whole, but only part real point of the perceptive muft perceive at once b fou Addifon's Cato e horror dwells about Betid to any creature in the veffe Bentley tha rdition's in thy prefence There's no foul loft Nay not fo much perdition as an hai quickfighted gentle Perci'piEnT. #. /. On power of perceiving Bacon Quick let us part men can wink and fwallow this fottith opinio about percipient atoms Bentley Senfation and perception are not. inherent i matter as fuchj for if it were fo, every ftock o ftone would be a percipient and rational creature in plant and fecing what was to b joyfully; going abroad No article of religion hath credibility enough fo an an was no danger of our utter perdirion An free men fo took ourf:lve W C(‘Ptlon them; yet thefe cautiou felf in triumph Pe'renprs. #. /. Paris candles uied i Evgland in ancient times; alfo th larger fort of wax candles, which wer ufually fet upon the altar PERCI'PIENT. adj. [percipiens, Latin. Perceiving; having the power of per they mea Bacon perceptio nof the Turkifh fleet, every man puts him dancing and fencing, not without aim then ferchance at a courtier's life Wotton Only Smithficld ballad perchance to embalm th _ memory of the other L Eftrange whe in Wales fa certain hills have their night caps on mifchief Ther BiE 9 Whilom thou waft zeregal to the beft And wont to make the jolly thepherds glad With piping and dancing, did pafs the reft. Spenf PE'REGRINATE w. m. [peregrinus Latin. To travel; to live in foreig countries x') 4 PerEGRrRINA'TION. 2. /. [from peregrinus Lat.] Travel; abode in foreign couns agreed betwee ve of his pere It is not amifs to whic th apoft them d Bacon rve the heads of doétrine ee no to publith in all thei conten for a paradife ou 1 Hammond to have the earth paf onl peregrina PE'REGRINE rinus h 2t7on abroad 1 Tha what accoun Ty Latin land o S Bentley ¥F Ol 1'r Foreign; no na e ; not domeftick Th rece 7 col o in nugation 7o Pere''MPT. . a. [peremptus, Latin. A Ja To kill ; to crufh £ law texrm 1 |