Never ceasing; continuing forever in future time; destined to be eternal; as a perpetual covenant; a perpetual statute.

Continuing or continued without intermission; uninterrupted; as a perpetual stream; the perpetual action of the heart and arteries.

Permanent; fixed; not temporary; as a perpetual law or edict; perpetual love or amity, perpetual incense. Exodus 30:8.

Everlasting; endless. Destructions are come to a perpetual end. Psalm 9:6.

During the legal dispensation. Exodus 29:9. Perpetual curacy, is where all the tithes are appropriated and no vicarage is endowed. Perpetual motion, motion that generates a power of continuing itself forever or indefinitely, by means of mechanism or some application of the force of gravity; not yet discovered, and probably impossible. Perpetual screw, a screw that acts against the teeth of a wheel and continues its action without end.