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forever or for an unlimited time; unfailing; everlasting; continuous. Unto the kingdom of perpetual night. Shak. Perpetual feast of nectared sweets. Milton. Circle of perpetual apparition, or occultation. See under Circle. -- Perpetual calendar, a calendar so devised that it may be adjusted for any month or year. --…

A calendar that can be used perpetually or over a wide range of years. That of Capt. Herschel covers, as given below, dates from 1750 to 1961 only, but is capable of indefinite extension.

In a perpetual manner; constantly; continually. The Bible and Common Prayer Book in the vulgar tongue, being perpetually read in churches, have proved a kind of standard for language. Swift.

The state or condition of being perpetual. [Obs.] Testament of Love.

; -- more commonly used of persons. Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion. Johnson. Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it. Addison.

dvocating or pleading; plea; advocacy. [Archaic] The holy Jesus . . . sits in heaven in a perpetual advocation for us. Jer. Taylor.

An agrarian law. [R.] An equal agrarian is perpetual law. Harrington.

At all times; ever; perpetually; throughout all time; continually; as, God is always the same. Even in Heaven his [Mammon's] looks and thoughts. Milton.

Something that surrounds or invests; as, air . . . being a perpetual ambient. Sir H. Wotton.

er luminary after having been invisible or obscured; -- opposed to occultation. Circle of perpetual apparition. See under Circle.

The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.

To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind. A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms. Milton.

in the Netherlands, and elsewhere, whose members live in beguinages and are not bound by perpetual vows.

A disease in which there is a perpetual and insatiable appetite for food; a diseased and voracious appetite.

rising from the circumstances of the case; a moral requirement or appeal. Dependence is a perpetual call upon hummanity. Addison. Running into danger without any call of duty. Macaulay.

ds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation.

e name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation. Canonization of saints was not known to the Christian church titl toward the middle of the tenth century. Hoock.

perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry. Irritated by perpetual chicanery. Hallam.

e Cimmerii, a fabulous people, said to have lived, in very ancient times, in profound and perpetual darkness.

licity to; to disclose. -- To come over. (a) To pass from one side or place to another. "Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to them." Addison.