Definition of persis

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Persis (n.) A kind of coloring matter obtained from lichens.

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Insistence :: Insistence (n.) The quality of insisting, or being urgent or pressing; the act of dwelling upon as of special importance; persistence; urgency..
Gnaphalium :: Gnaphalium (n.) A genus of composite plants with white or colored dry and persistent involucres; a kind of everlasting.
Stubby :: Stubborn (a.) Firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons and things; as, stubborn wills; stubborn ore; a stubborn oak; as stubborn as a mule..
Persistive :: Persistive (a.) See Persistent.
Casehardened :: Casehardened (a.) Hardened against, or insusceptible to, good influences; rendered callous by persistence in wrongdoing or resistance of good influences; -- said of persons..
Persist :: Persist (v. i.) To stand firm; to be fixed and unmoved; to stay; to continue steadfastly; especially, to continue fixed in a course of conduct against opposing motives; to persevere; -- sometimes conveying an unfavorable notion, as of doggedness or obstinacy..
Pertinacity :: Pertinacity (n.) The quality or state of being pertinacious; obstinacy; perseverance; persistency.
Tenacity :: Tenacity (n.) The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose..
Persistence :: Persistence (n.) Alt. of Persistenc.
Perseverance :: Perseverance (n.) The act of persevering; persistence in anything undertaken; continued pursuit or prosecution of any business, or enterprise begun..
Indefatigably :: Indefatigably (adv.) Without weariness; without yielding to fatigue; persistently.
Doggedness :: Doggedness (n.) Sullen or obstinate determination; grim resolution or persistence.
Continue :: Continue (v. t.) To protract or extend in duration; to preserve or persist in; to cease not.
Pertinacious :: Pertinacious (a.) Holding or adhering to any opinion, purpose, or design, with obstinacy; perversely persistent; obstinate; as, pertinacious plotters; a pertinacious beggar..
Tetanus :: Tetanus (n.) A painful and usually fatal disease, resulting generally from a wound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles. When the muscles of the lower jaw are affected, it is called locked-jaw, or lickjaw, and it takes various names from the various incurvations of the body resulting from the spasm..
Persecute :: Persecute (v. t.) To harass with importunity; to pursue with persistent solicitations; to annoy.
Intensive :: Intensive (a.) Characterized by persistence; intent; unremitted; assiduous; intense.
Diabetes :: Diabetes (n.) A disease which is attended with a persistent, excessive discharge of urine. Most frequently the urine is not only increased in quantity, but contains saccharine matter, in which case the disease is generally fatal..
Primordialism :: Primordialism (n.) Devotion to, or persistence in, conditions of the primordial state..
Pump :: Pump (v. t.) Figuratively, to draw out or obtain, as secrets or money, by persistent questioning or plying; to question or ply persistently in order to elicit something, as information, money, etc..
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