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Webster 1913 Edition

Perpetrate

Per′pe-trate

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Perpetrated
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Perpetrating
.]
[L.
perpetratus
, p. p. of
perpetrare
to effect, perpetrare;
per
+
patrare
to perform.]
To do or perform; to carry through; to execute, commonly in a bad sense; to commit (as a crime, an offense); to be guilty of;
as, to
perpetrate
a foul deed
.
What the worst
perpetrate
, or best endure.
Young.

Webster 1828 Edition

Perpetrate

PER'PETRATE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. perpetro; per and patro, to go through, to finish.] To do; to commit; to perform; in an ill sense, that is, always used to express an evil act; as, to perpetrate a crime or an evil design.

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