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persist, v.|pəˈsɪst|
[ad. L. persist-ĕre to continue steadfastly, to persist, f. per- 2 + sistĕre to stand. Cf. F. persister (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. intr. To continue firmly or obstinately in a state, opinion, purpose, or course of action, esp. against opposition, or remonstrance. Formerly also with infin.
1538Elyot Dict., Consto, to persyste or abyde in a thynge. Ibid., Obstino, to be obstinate, or persist firme, in one sentence or purpose. 1555Eden Decades Pref. (Arb.) 53 To persist in frowarde stoobernesse. 1574tr. Marlorat's Apocalips 43 Whosoeuer persisteth in Gods truth to the ende, there is no cause why he should feare the euerlasting death. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. ii. ii. 186 Thus to persist In doing wrong, extenuates not wrong. 1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. 372 Farewel most learned Bartholine, And persist to love me. 1779Sheridan Monologue Garrick, Can we persist to bid your sorrows flow? 1858Dickens Lett. (1880) II. 75 They persisted in going to the room last night.
b. To be insistent or urgent in a statement or question; to persist in saying or asserting.
1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 389 The Droger..persists; What comfort can I reap from your disturbance? a1774Goldsm. Hist. Greece II. 256 [Callisthenes] persisted in his innocence to the last. 1838Lytton Alice i. vi, ‘Mr. Aubrey is not severe’, persisted Evelyn.
†2. To remain or continue to be (something or of some quality). Obs. or merged in 1.
1539Act 31 Hen. VIII, c. 5 The saide Indenture shall persiste continue and abide..in full strength and vertue. 1590Marlowe 2nd Pt. Tamburl. iv. i, I will persist a terror to the world. 1606Holland Sueton. 2 They persisted earnest suiters still for him. 1671Milton Samson 249 But they persisted deaf, and would not seem To count them things worth notice. 1722Wollaston Relig. Nat. v. 78 [Matter] will always persist uniformly in its present state, either of rest or motion, if nothing stirs, diverts, accelerates, or stops it.
†3. To remain standing (against opposing force); to stop short (at some point). Obs. rare.
1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. i. §18 Those that hold that all things are governed by Fortune, had not erred, had they not persisted there. 1646― Pseud. Ep. vii. xviii. 381 He was able to persist erect upon an oyled planke, and not to bee removed by the force..of three men.
4. To remain in existence; to last, endure.
1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. i. xi. (1765) 26 The Calyx..Persisting, till the Fruit is come to Maturity. 1866Tate Brit. Mollusks iv. 147 Bulimus has persisted since the period of..the Upper Eocene. 1898A. C. Haddon Study of Man p. xxvii, Among the pigmy peoples..we find many infantile characters persisting in the adults. |