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peri
peri (in Persian mythology) a mythical superhuman being, originally represented as evil but subsequently as a good or graceful genie or fairy. The name comes ultimately from Avestan (Zend) pairikā, any of several beautiful but malevolent female demons employed by Ahriman to bring comets and eclipses, prevent rain, and cause failure of crops and dearth.
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ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "peri." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "peri." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-peri.html ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "peri." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-peri.html |
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pe·ri / ˈpi(ə)rē/ • n. (pl. pe·ris ) (in Persian mythology) a mythical superhuman being, originally represented as evil but subsequently as a good or graceful genie or fairy. |
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"peri." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "peri." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-peri.html "peri." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-peri.html |
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peri , in Persian mythology, supernatural being. Peris were said to be fallen angels who were denied paradise until they did penance. Originally agents of evil, in later mythology they were identified as benevolent spirits. |
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"peri." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "peri." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-peri.html "peri." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-peri.html |
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peri- The Greek peri, meaning ‘around’, used as a prefix meaning ‘around’ or ‘enveloping’.
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MICHAEL ALLABY. "peri-." A Dictionary of Ecology. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MICHAEL ALLABY. "peri-." A Dictionary of Ecology. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O14-peri.html MICHAEL ALLABY. "peri-." A Dictionary of Ecology. 2004. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O14-peri.html |
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peri- From the Greek peri meaning ‘around’, a prefix meaning ‘around’ or ‘enveloping’.
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AILSA ALLABY and MICHAEL ALLABY. "peri-." A Dictionary of Earth Sciences. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. AILSA ALLABY and MICHAEL ALLABY. "peri-." A Dictionary of Earth Sciences. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O13-peri.html AILSA ALLABY and MICHAEL ALLABY. "peri-." A Dictionary of Earth Sciences. 1999. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O13-peri.html |
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peri- Prefix referring to the closest point in the orbit of one object around another; as in perihelion and perigee.
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"peri-." A Dictionary of Astronomy. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "peri-." A Dictionary of Astronomy. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O80-peri.html "peri-." A Dictionary of Astronomy. 1997. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O80-peri.html |
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peri- repr. comb. form of Gr. péri, perí adv. and prep. about, around, roundabout, rel. to L. PER.
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T. F. HOAD. "peri-." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. T. F. HOAD. "peri-." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-peri.html T. F. HOAD. "peri-." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-peri.html |
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peri- prefix denoting near, around, or enclosing.
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"peri-." A Dictionary of Nursing. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "peri-." A Dictionary of Nursing. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O62-peri.html "peri-." A Dictionary of Nursing. 2008. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O62-peri.html |
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peri •beery, bleary, cheery, dearie, dreary, Dun Laoghaire, eerie, eyrie (US aerie), Kashmiri, leery, peri, praemunire, query, smeary, teary, theory, weary
•Deirdre • incendiary • intermediary
•subsidiary
•auxiliary, ciliary, domiciliary
•apiary • topiary • farriery • furriery
•justiciary
•bestiary, vestiary
•breviary • aviary • hosiery
•diary, enquiry, expiry, fiery, friary, inquiry, miry, priory, spiry, wiry
•podiatry, psychiatry
•dowry, floury, flowery, loury, showery, towery
•brewery • jewellery (US jewelry)
•curie, de jure, fioriture, fury, houri, Jewry, jury, Manipuri, Missouri, moory, Newry, tandoori, Urey
•statuary • actuary • sanctuary
•obituary • sumptuary • voluptuary
•January • electuary • ossuary
•mortuary
•Bradbury, Cadbury
•blackberry, hackberry
•cranberry • waxberry
•Barbary, barberry
•Shaftesbury • raspberry
•bayberry, blaeberry
•Avebury • Aylesbury • Sainsbury
•bilberry, tilbury
•bribery
•corroboree, jobbery, robbery, slobbery, snobbery
•dogberry • Roddenberry • Fosbury
•strawberry • Salisbury
•crowberry, snowberry
•chokeberry
•Rosebery, Shrewsbury
•blueberry, dewberry
•Dewsbury • Bloomsbury • gooseberry
•blubbery, rubbery, shrubbery
•Sudbury • mulberry • huckleberry
•Bunbury • husbandry • loganberry
•Canterbury • Glastonbury
•Burberry, turbary
•hatchery • archery
•lechery, treachery
•stitchery, witchery
•debauchery • butchery • camaraderie
•cindery, tindery
•industry • dromedary • lapidary
•spidery • bindery • doddery
•quandary • powdery • boundary
•bouldery • embroidery
•prudery, rudery
•do-goodery • shuddery • thundery
•prebendary • legendary • secondary
•amphorae • wafery
•midwifery, periphery
•infantry • housewifery • spoofery
•puffery • sulphury (US sulfury)
•Calgary
•beggary, Gregory
•vagary
•piggery, priggery, whiggery
•brigandry • bigotry • allegory
•vinegary • category • subcategory
•hoggery, toggery
•pettifoggery • demagoguery
•roguery • sugary
•buggery, skulduggery, snuggery, thuggery
•Hungary • humbuggery
•ironmongery • lingerie • treasury
•usury • menagerie • pageantry
•Marjorie • kedgeree • gingery
•imagery • orangery • savagery
•forgery • soldiery • drudgery
•perjury, surgery
•microsurgery
•hackery, quackery, Thackeray, Zachary
•mountebankery • knick-knackery
•gimcrackery • peccary • grotesquerie
•bakery, fakery, jacquerie
•chickaree, chicory, hickory, Terpsichore, trickery
•whiskery • apothecary
•crockery, mockery, rockery
•falconry • jiggery-pokery
•cookery, crookery, rookery
•brusquerie
•puckery, succory
•cuckoldry
•calorie, gallery, Malory, salary, Valerie
•saddlery • balladry • gallantry
•kilocalorie • diablerie • chandlery
•harlotry • celery • pedlary
•exemplary
•helotry, zealotry
•nailery, raillery
•Tuileries
•ancillary, artillery, capillary, codicillary, distillery, fibrillary, fritillary, Hilary, maxillary, pillory
•mamillary • tutelary • corollary
•bardolatry, hagiolatry, iconolatry, idolatry
•cajolery, drollery
•foolery, tomfoolery
•constabulary, vocabulary
•scapulary • capitulary • formulary
•scullery • jugglery • cutlery
•chancellery • epistolary • burglary
•mammary • fragmentary
•passementerie • flimflammery
•armory, armoury, gendarmerie
•almonry
•emery, memory
•creamery • shimmery • primary
•rosemary • yeomanry
•parfumerie, perfumery
•flummery, Montgomery, mummery, summary, summery
•gossamery • customary • infirmary
•cannery, granary, tannery
•canonry
•antennary, bimillenary, millenary, venery
•tenantry • chicanery
•beanery, bicentenary, catenary, centenary, deanery, greenery, machinery, plenary, scenery, senary, septenary
•disciplinary, interdisciplinary
•hymnary • missionary
•ordinary, subordinary
•valetudinary • imaginary • millinery
•culinary • seminary • preliminary
•luminary • urinary • veterinary
•mercenary • sanguinary
•binary, finery, pinery, quinary, vinery, winery
•Connery • Conakry • ornery • joinery
•buffoonery, poltroonery, sublunary, superlunary
•gunnery, nunnery
•consuetudinary • visionary
•exclusionary • legionary • pulmonary
•coronary • reactionary • expansionary
•concessionary, confessionary, discretionary
•confectionery, insurrectionary, lectionary
•deflationary, inflationary, probationary, stationary, stationery
•expeditionary, petitionary, prohibitionary, traditionary, transitionary
•dictionary • cautionary
•ablutionary, counter-revolutionary, devolutionary, elocutionary, evolutionary, revolutionary, substitutionary
•functionary
•diversionary, reversionary
•fernery, quaternary, ternary
•peppery • extempore • weaponry
•apery, drapery, japery, napery, papery, vapoury (US vapory)
•frippery, slippery
•coppery, foppery
•popery • dupery • trumpery
•February • heraldry • knight-errantry
•arbitrary • registrary • library
•contrary • horary • supernumerary
•itinerary • honorary • funerary
•contemporary, extemporary, temporary
•literary • brasserie • chancery
•accessory, intercessory, pessary, possessory, tesserae
•dispensary, incensory, ostensory, sensory, suspensory
•tracery
•pâtisserie, rotisserie
•emissary • dimissory
•commissary, promissory
•janissary • necessary • derisory
•glossary • responsory • sorcery
•grocery • greengrocery
•delusory, illusory
•compulsory • vavasory • adversary
•anniversary, bursary, cursory, mercery, nursery
•haberdashery
•evidentiary, penitentiary, plenipotentiary, residentiary
•beneficiary, fishery, judiciary
•noshery • gaucherie • fiduciary
•luxury • tertiary
•battery, cattery, chattery, flattery, tattery
•factory, manufactory, olfactory, phylactery, refractory, satisfactory
•artery, martyry, Tartary
•mastery, plastery
•directory, ex-directory, interjectory, rectory, refectory, trajectory
•peremptory
•alimentary, complementary, complimentary, documentary, elementary, parliamentary, rudimentary, sedimentary, supplementary, testamentary
•investigatory
•adulatory, aleatory, approbatory, celebratory, clarificatory, classificatory, commendatory, congratulatory, consecratory, denigratory, elevatory, gyratory, incantatory, incubatory, intimidatory, modificatory, participatory, placatory, pulsatory, purificatory, reificatory, revelatory, rotatory
•natatory • elucidatory • castigatory
•mitigatory • justificatory
•imprecatory • equivocatory
•flagellatory • execratory • innovatory
•eatery, excretory
•glittery, jittery, skittery, twittery
•benedictory, contradictory, maledictory, valedictory, victory
•printery, splintery
•consistory, history, mystery
•presbytery
•inhibitory, prohibitory
•hereditary • auditory • budgetary
•military, paramilitary
•solitary • cemetery • limitary
•vomitory • dormitory • fumitory
•interplanetary, planetary, sanitary
•primogenitary • dignitary
•admonitory, monitory
•unitary • monetary • territory
•secretary • undersecretary
•plebiscitary • repository • baptistery
•transitory
•depositary, depository, expository, suppository
•niterie
•Godwottery, lottery, pottery, tottery
•bottomry • watery • psaltery
•coterie, notary, protonotary, rotary, votary
•upholstery
•bijouterie, charcuterie, circumlocutory
•persecutory • statutory • salutary
•executory
•contributory, retributory, tributary
•interlocutory
•buttery, fluttery
•introductory • adultery • effrontery
•perfunctory • blustery • mediatory
•retaliatory • conciliatory • expiatory
•denunciatory, renunciatory
•appreciatory, depreciatory
•initiatory, propitiatory
•dietary, proprietary
•extenuatory
•mandatary, mandatory
•predatory • sedentary • laudatory
•prefatory • offertory • negatory
•obligatory
•derogatory, interrogatory, supererogatory
•nugatory
•expurgatory, objurgatory, purgatory
•precatory
•explicatory, indicatory, vindicatory
•confiscatory, piscatory
•dedicatory • judicatory
•qualificatory • pacificatory
•supplicatory
•communicatory, excommunicatory
•masticatory • prognosticatory
•invocatory • obfuscatory
•revocatory • charlatanry
•depilatory, dilatory, oscillatory
•assimilatory • consolatory
•voluntary • emasculatory
•ejaculatory
•ambulatory, circumambulatory, perambulatory
•regulatory
•articulatory, gesticulatory
•manipulatory • copulatory
•expostulatory • circulatory
•amatory, declamatory, defamatory, exclamatory, inflammatory, proclamatory
•crematory • segmentary
•lachrymatory
•commentary, promontory
•informatory, reformatory
•momentary
•affirmatory, confirmatory
•explanatory • damnatory
•condemnatory
•cosignatory, signatory
•combinatory
•discriminatory, eliminatory, incriminatory, recriminatory
•comminatory • exterminatory
•hallucinatory • procrastinatory
•monastery • repertory
•emancipatory • anticipatory
•exculpatory, inculpatory
•declaratory, preparatory
•respiratory • perspiratory
•vibratory
•migratory, transmigratory
•exploratory, laboratory, oratory
•inauguratory • adjuratory
•corroboratory • reverberatory
•refrigeratory • compensatory
•desultory • dysentery
•exhortatory, hortatory
•salutatory • gustatory • lavatory
•inventory
•conservatory, observatory
•improvisatory
•accusatory, excusatory
•lathery
•feathery, heathery, leathery
•dithery, slithery
•carvery
•reverie, severy
•Avery, bravery, knavery, quavery, Savery, savory, savoury, slavery, wavery
•thievery
•livery, quivery, shivery
•silvery
•ivory, salivary
•ovary
•discovery, recovery
•servery • equerry • reliquary
•antiquary • cassowary • stipendiary
•colliery • pecuniary • chinoiserie
•misery • wizardry • citizenry
•advisory, provisory, revisory, supervisory
•causerie, rosary
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"peri." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "peri." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-peri.html "peri." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-peri.html |
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