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; beyond the reach or influence of. "Who being past feeling." Eph. iv. 19. "Galled past endurance." Macaulay. Until we be past thy borders. Num. xxi. 22. Love, when once past government, is consequently past shame. L'Estrange.

on which the consecrated bread is placed in the Eucharist, or on which the host is placed during the Mass. It is usually small, and formed as to fit the chalice, or cup, as a cover. [Written also patin, patine.]

Sufferable; tolerable; endurable. [Obs.] Bailey.

state or quality of being patient; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty, insult, oppression, calamity, etc. Strenthened with all might, . . . unto all patience and long- suffering. Col. i. 11. I must have patience to endure the load. Shak. Who hath le…

Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear. Patient of severest toil and hardship. Bp. Fell.

ied by a pedestrian for automatically making a topographical record of the ground covered during a journey.

During; as, pending the trail.

es of gum tree (Eucalyptus amygdalina, E. piperita, E. odorata, etc.) which have hard and durable wood, and yield an essential oil.

Those who live within a polar circle, whose shadows, during some summer days, will move entirely round, falling toward every point of the compass.

Permanent; durable. [Obs.] Lydgate.

The quality or state of being permanent; continuance in the same state or place; duration; fixedness; as, the permanence of institutions; the permanence of nature.

ut any change that destroys form or character; remaining unaltered or unremoved; abiding; durable; fixed; stable; lasting; as, a permanent impression. Eternity stands permanent and fixed. Dryden. Permanent gases (Chem. & Physics), hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon monoxide; -- also called incondensible or incoerci…

Suffering; endurance. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

se); to be guilty of; as, to perpetrate a foul deed. What the worst perpetrate, or best endure. Young.

To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize. Addison. Burke.

Duration without limitations as to time.

Fig.: Hardness; callousness; obduracy. "Petrifaction of the soul." Cudworth.

Fig.: Obduracy; callousness. Hallywell.

To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young. "Petrifying accuracy." Sir W. Scott. And petrify a genius to a dunce. Pope. The poor, petrified journeyman, quite unconscious of what he was doing. De Quincey. A hideous fatalism, which ought, logica…

hosphorescence produced in different bodies by the action of light, and for measuring its duration.