![]() ![]() O suffer me not to perish in my sins, Lord carest thou not that I perish, who wilt that all should be saved, and that none should perish. These, as natural brute beasts made to be destroyed, speak evil of the things they understand not, and shall utterly perish. To be in a perpetual state of decay.ĭuration, and time which is a part of it, is the idea we have of perishing distance, of which no two parts exist together, but follow in succession as expansion is the idea of lasting distance, all whose parts exist together. In the Iliad, the anger of Achilles had caused the death of so many Grecians and in the Odyssey, the subjects perished through their own fault.Īlexander Pope. Some Athens perishes, or some Marcus Tullius Cicero bleeds. Still when the lust of tyrant pow’r succeeds, The sick, when their case comes to be thought desperate, are carried out and laid on the earth to perish without assistance or pity.Ĭharacters drawn on dust, that the first breath of wind effaces, are altogether as useful as the thoughts of a soul that perish in thinking.Įxposing their children, and leaving them in the fields to perish by want, has been the practice. They perish quickly from off the good land. He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword. If I have seen any perish for want of cloathing, then let mine arm fall from my shoulder-blade. If I atchieve not this young modest girl. To die to be destroyed to be lost to come to nothing. To perish would then be (or at the very least include) not knowing God. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ![]() Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more. Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. Eternal life is defined by Jesus: And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. Definition of perish verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. He was so reserved, that he would impart his secrets to nobody whereupon this closeness did a little perish his understandings.įamiliar now with grief your ears refrain,Įtymology: perir, Fr. 'Perish' is described as the fate opposite 'eternal life'. Rise, prepar’d in black, to mourn thy perish’d lord. The splitting rocks cow’r’d in the sinking sands,Īnd would not dash me with their ragged sides īecause thy flinty heart, more hard than they, Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Rate this definition: 0.0 / 0 votes ![]()
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