Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Middle English form of
perish .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To perish.
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Examples
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Miser Catulle, desinas ineptire, et quod vides perisse perditum ducas. fulsere quondam candidi tibi soles …
Miss her, Catullus? : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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Q. Cosconius redeuntem e Graecia perisse in mari dicit cum fabulis conversis a M.nandro: ceteri mortuum esse in Arcadia sive Leucadiae tradunt, Cn. Cornelio Dolabella M. Fulvio Nobiliore coss., morbo implicatum ex dolore ac taedio amissarum sarcinarum quas in nave praemiserat, ac simul fabularum quas novas fecerat. '
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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MISER Catulle, desinas ineptire, et quod uides perisse perditum ducas. fulsere quondam candidi tibi soles, cum uentitabas quo puella ducebat amata nobis quantum amabitur nulla.
Miser Catulle 1912
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We believe that we are made partakers of this justification by faith alone, as it is written: 'He suffered for our salvation, that whosoever believeth on croira en lui, ne perisse point.
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Persius caricatures him, _exclamet_ Melicerta _perisse_ Frontem _de rebus_.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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He was heard to cry aloud, "Si mon frere est coupable, qu'il perisse" (If my brother be culpable, let him die).
Zanoni Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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[non] inter multos perisse cum pereundi causa sit propter Christum perire.
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-- whereupon they all start to their feet, shouting responsive: "Yes, yes, perisse notre memoire, pourvu que la France soit libre!"
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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'exclamet Melicerta perisse frontem de rebus'; from Hor. _Ep. _ ii.
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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