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perdurable, a.|pəˈdjʊərəb(ə)l, ˈpɜːdjʊərəb(ə)l|
Also 5–6 par-.
[a. OF. per-, pardurable (12th c. in Godef.) = Pr. perdurable, It. perdurabile, ad. late L. perdūrābilis (Boeth.), f. perdūrāre: see perdure and -ble. Very rare from a 1660 to 1800, and by Johnson considered obs.; common again in 19th c.]
Enduring continuously, lasting, permanent; everlasting, as measured by human life or human history.
c1250[implied in perdurably]. c1374Chaucer Boeth. ii. met. iii. 27 (Camb. MS.) It is certeyn and establyssed by lawe perdurable þat nothinge þat is engendred nys stedefast ne estable. 1387–8T. Usk Test. Love ii. viii. (Skeat) I. 87 The thank of a people..procedeth of no wyse jugement; never is it stedfast pardurable. 1430–40Lydg. Bochas viii. Prol. (1558) 1 b, For to make our names perdurable. c1460Fortescue Abs. & Lim. Mon. xiv. (1885) 142 Perdurable livelod ffor the sustentacion off his estate. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VI 141 b, Gain is not alwaies perdurable, nor losse alwaies continuall. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, iv. v. 7 O perdurable shame, let's stab our selues. 1645Milton Colast. Wks. 1738 I. 305 What thing in the nature of a Covenant shall bind the other to such a perdurable mischief? 1806H. Siddons Maid, Wife, & Widow I. 204 A friendship..of a more perdurable nature than a thousand of those which are daily moulded out of bows, smiles, curtesies. 1814Southey Roderick xvi. 287 Leaving a name perdurable on earth. 1865Mill Exam. Hamilton 199 The existence of a perdurable basis of sensations. 1880T. Hodgkin Italy & Inv. iii. viii. II. 540 [That] so vast and perdurable a structure as the Roman Empire could utterly perish.
b. esp. (in theological lang.) Everlasting, eternal, as opposed to things of this world and of time.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋1 The blissful lif that is perdurable. c1450Merlin 93 In soche maner that thow lese not the lif perdurable. a1536Calisto & Melib. in Hazl. Dodsley I. 64 The mighty and perdurable God be his guide. 1657–82Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) I. iii. §5. 248 The material and perishing substance can never comprehend what is immaterial and perdurable. 1882–3in Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 2525/1 The separate and perdurable personality of man.
c. Of material things: Able to withstand wear or decay; imperishable; lasting indefinitely.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. i. pr. i. 2 (Camb. MS.) Hyr clothes weeren maked of riht delye thredes and subtil craft of perdurable matere. 1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie ii. 20 Black..is the most perdurable of all other colours. 1604Shakes. Oth. i. iii. 343, I confesse me knit to thy deseruing, with Cables of perdurable toughnesse. 1624Heywood Gunaik. vi. 294 Having perdurable monuments raised to her as well in Babilon as in Athens. 1816Southey Lay of Laureate xiv, Sculpture there had done her fitting part, Bidding the forms perdurable arise Of those great Chiefs. 1849James Woodman xix, I am of granite..hard and perdurable.
Hence perˈdurableness (rare), the quality of being perdurable; perdurability.
1628Coke On Litt. i. i. §11 Our Author speaketh here of the amplenesse, and greatnesse of the estate, and not of the perdurablenesse of the same. 1727in Bailey vol. II. 1858 Sat. Rev. 13 Mar. 259/1 One more proof of the perdurableness of aristocracies. |