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Peristyle – Peter the Hermit

Peristyle

an open court within a house, having a which the principal apartments were a house, having a colonnade around it, by PERISTYLE, an open court within ing a colonnade around it, by reached; the exact reverse of the peripteros, though the same in character, the one being inside, the other outside a building.

Permanganate

a compound of base. Potassic permanganate is used as a disinfectant, and as a chemical reagent.

Perseverance

the Calvinistic doctrine that those who are elected to eternal life, justified, adopted, and sanctified, will never permanently lapse from grace or be finally lost. Called more fully the perseverance of the saints. It is founded on Matt. xxiv: 24, John x: 27-29; Rom. viii: 29-39; Phil. i: 6, etc.

Personification

the act of personifying, an embodiment, an impersonation. In rhetoric, a figure of speech, spe or a species of metaphor which consists in representing inanimate objects or abstract notions as endued with life and action, or possessing the attributes of living beings; prosopopeia; as, "Confusion heard his voice."

Persian Powder

a preparation made from the flowers of Pyrethrum corneum or roseum, and reduced to the form of powder. It is used as an insecticide.

Personal Equation

the correction of personal differences between particular individuals as to exactness in observations with astronomical instruments.

Personalty

or PERSONAL

Property

movables; chattels; things belonging to the person, as money, jewels, furniture, etc., as distinguished from real estate in lands and houses.

Petalite

a monoclinic mineral, rarely occurring in crystals, but mostly in cleavable masses. form is the castorite. Found on the Isle The crystallized of Utö, Sweden, and at a few other localities. Related to spodumene.

Petard

a machine formerly used for blowing open gates or barriers in fortifications. It was bell shaped, charged with powder, and fired by a fuse. The mouth of the machine was placed against the obstacle, and kept in place by struts or by being hung on a hook driven into the woodwork.

Peter Martyr

the patron saint of the Inquisition, a Dominican of Verona, who, for the severity with which he exercised his inquisitorial functions, was in 1252 slain at Como by the infuriated populace. His death formed the subject of a masterpiece by Titian, destroyed by fire in Venice in 1867.

Peter the Hermit

a French gentleman of Amiens, in Picardy, who renounced a military life to embrace that of a pilgrim. At the end of the 11th century, a general alarm was spread that the last day was approaching; on which numbers of persons flocked to the Holy Land from all countries with a view of