perpetia
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]perpetia
- Misspelling of peripetia.
- 1695, W. J., transl., Monsieur Bossu's Treatise of the Epick Poem..., page 80:
- These different ways make two sorts of Action or Fable: The One Simple, the Other Complex. The Simple Actions are such as End without a Discovery and a Peripetia; The Complex have either a Discovery, or a Perpetia, or Both.
- 2001, A. Peter Brown, The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume II: The First Golden Age of the Viennese Symphony: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert, page 485:
- The first symphonic essay by Beethoven in the minor mode allowed him to stretch the perpetia of the drama from darkness to light not just within a single movement, as in Symphony No. 4/1, but over a longer span, with only a few hints of light until the Finale blazes forth with C-major brilliance.
Latin
[edit]Adjective
[edit]perpetia
- Misspelling of perpetua.
- 1992, Charles Edmund Vetter, Sherman: Merchant of Terror, Advocate of Peace (overall work in English), Pelican Publishing Company, page 70:
- On January 18, Sherman submitted his resignation to Governor Moore, and reminded the chief executive that he had accepted the position of superintendent of the seminary while "... Louisiana was a State in the Union, and when the motto ... was ... 'By the liberality of the General Government of the United States. The Union—esto perpetia.'"
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