A coup Perdu, Fr. At random.
Coup Perdu, Fr. Random shot.
PEREMPTORY. Whatever is absolute and final, not to be altered, renewed, or restrained. Peremptory execution, what takes place immediately.
PERE, Ind. See [Peer].
PERFIDIOUS. Treacherous, false to trust, guilty of violated faith. Hence a perfidious foe. War, however melancholy in its effects, and frequently unjustifiable in its cause and progress, is nevertheless, among civilized nations, so far governed by certain principles of honor, as to render the observance of established laws and customs an object of general acquiescence. When two or more countries are engaged in a hostile contest, whatever belligerent party grossly deviates from those rules, is deservedly stamped with infamy, and justly called “a perfidious foe.”
Perfidiously, treacherously, falsely, without faith.
Perfidy, want of faith, treachery.
PERGUNNA, Ind. A district.
PERIMETER, in geometry, the extent that bounds any figure or body. The perimeters of figures or surfaces, are lines; those of bodies are surfaces. In circular figures, &c. we use circumference or periphery instead of perimeter.
PERIOD. This word is frequently used in military accounts to express the intermediate time for which money has been issued to officers and soldiers.