Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Experienced; skilful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Skilled.
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Collocabatur in medio domûs emaculatæ odoribus Arabicis undique, lance rotunda pure superposita, ex diversis metallicis materiis fabrefacta; cujus in ambitu rotunditatis extremo elementorum viginti quatuor scriptiles formæ incisæ perite, dijungebantur spatiis examinate dimensis.
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Decet e {n} im generosoru {m} filios, apte inflare cornu, perite uenari, accipitre {m} pulchre gestare & educare.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
nuxiy commented on the word perite
"go through (to the netherworld)"
March 17, 2009