Meanings
nounperpension (countable and uncountable, plural perpensions)
plural perpensions
- countableobsoleteuncountableCareful consideration; pondering.
unto reasonable perpensions it hath no place in some sciences
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
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