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PERDURANCE; PERDURATION n.
Long continuance. [Archaic]
PERERRATION n.
A wandering, or rambling, through various places. [R.] Howell.
PERFORATION n. 2 definitions
A hole made by boring or piercing; an aperture. "Slender perforations." Sir T. Browne.
PERLUSTRATION n.
The act of viewing all over. [Archaic] Howell.
PERORATION n.
The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument. Burke.
PERPETRATION n. 2 definitions
The act of perpetrating; a doing; -- commonly used of doing something wrong, as a crime.
PERSPIRATION n. 2 definitions
The act or process of perspiring.
PERTEREBRATION n.
The act of boring through. [Obs.] Ainsworth.
PIGNORATION n. 2 definitions
The act of pledging or pawning.
PONDERATION n.
The act of weighing. [R.] Arbuthnot.
PRAEFLORATION n.
Same as Prefloration. Gray.
PREADMINISTRATION n.
Previous administration. Bp. Pearson.
PREDELIBERATION n.
Previous deliberation.
PREFIGURATION n.
act of prefiguring, or the state of being prefigured. A variety of prophecies and prefigurations. Norris.
PREFLORATION n.
Æstivation.
PREMONSTRATION n.
A showing beforehand; foreshowing.
PREPARATION n. 7 definitions
, service, or condition; previous arrangement or adaptation; a making ready; as, the preparation of land for a crop of wheat; the preparation of troops for a campaign.
PREPONDERATION n.
The act or state of preponderating; preponderance; as, a preponderation of reasons. I. Watts.
PROCURATION n. 4 definitions
as a commutation for entertainment at the time of visitation; -- called also proxy. Procuration money (Law), money paid for procuring a loan. Blackstone.
PROGENERATION n.
The act of begetting; propagation. [R.]
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