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Definition of Imperishable

1. Adjective. Not perishable.

Definition of Imperishable

1. a. Not perishable; not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring permanently; as, an imperishable monument; imperishable renown.

Definition of Imperishable

1. Adjective. Not perishable; not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring permanently; as, an imperishable monument; imperishable renown. ¹

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Definition of Imperishable

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Imperishable

Literary usage of Imperishable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Aristotleby Aristotle by Aristotle (1908)
"CHAPTER X Since contraries are other in form, and the perishable and the imperishable are contraries (for privation is a determinate ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"(2) How is the imperishable element of the human soul thought of? ... (3) Teleologically, to what is the certainty of an imperishable existence necessary? ..."

3. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... and took The imperishable sceptre of his race, And so pass'd through the galleys of the host. And Dawn divine had clomb the Olympian steep, Harbinger of ..."

4. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander, Joseph Torrey (1851)
"The divine — religion — is something imperishable; but its forms are subject to decay. God bestows many good things on men ; but nothing imperishable ; for, ..."

5. Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1871)
"AN imperishable HOT-HOUSE. From the recently published list of English patents it appears that Mr. WP Ayres has secured "Improvements in the Construction ..."

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