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  • English Word Perfunctoriness Definition The quality or state of being perfunctory.
  • English Word Perfunctory Definition Done merely to get rid of a duty; performed mechanically and as a thing of rote; done in a careless and superficial manner; characterized by indifference; as, perfunctory admonitions.
  • English Word Perfunctory Definition Hence: Mechanical; indifferent; listless; careless.
  • English Word Perfuncturate Definition To perform in a perfunctory manner; to do negligently.
  • English Word Perfuse Definition To suffuse; to fill full or to excess.
  • English Word Perfused Definition of Perfuse
  • English Word Perfusing Definition of Perfuse
  • English Word Perfusion Definition The act of perfusing.
  • English Word Perfusive Definition Of a nature to flow over, or to spread through.
  • English Word Pergamenous Definition Alt. of Pergamentaceous
  • English Word Pergamentaceous Definition Like parchment.
  • English Word Perhaps Definition By chance; peradventure; perchance; it may be.
  • English Word Peri Definition An imaginary being, male or female, like an elf or fairy, represented as a descendant of fallen angels, excluded from paradise till penance is accomplished.
  • English Word Peri- Definition A prefix used to signify around, by, near, over, beyond, or to give an intensive sense; as, perimeter, the measure around; perigee, point near the earth; periergy, work beyond what is needed; perispherical, quite spherical.
  • English Word Periagua Definition See Pirogue.
  • English Word Perianth Definition The leaves of a flower generally, especially when the calyx and corolla are not readily distinguished.
  • English Word Perianth Definition A saclike involucre which incloses the young fruit in most hepatic mosses. See Illust. of Hepatica.
  • English Word Perianthium Definition The perianth.
  • English Word Periapt Definition A charm worn as a protection against disease or mischief; an amulet.
  • English Word Periastral Definition Among or around the stars.
  • English Word Periastron Definition That point, in the real or apparent orbit of one star revolving around another, at which the former is nearest to the latter.
  • English Word Periauger Definition See Pirogue.
  • English Word Periblast Definition The protoplasmic matter which surrounds the entoblast, or cell nucleus, and undergoes segmentation.
  • English Word Periblem Definition Nascent cortex, or immature cellular bark.
  • English Word Peribolos Definition In ancient architecture, an inclosed court, esp., one surrounding a temple.
  • English Word Peribranchial Definition Surrounding the branchiae; as, a peribranchial cavity.
  • English Word Peribranchial Definition Around the bronchi or bronchial tubes; as, the peribronchial lymphatics.
  • English Word Pericambium Definition A layer of thin-walled young cells in a growing stem, in which layer certain new vessels originate.
  • English Word Pericardiac Definition Alt. of Pericardial
  • English Word Pericardial Definition Of or pertaining to pericardium; situated around the heart.