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Persistent :: Persistent (a.) Inclined to persist; having staying qualities; tenacious of position or purpose.

Insistent :: Insistent (a.) Insisting; persistent; persevering.

Institution :: Institution (n.) Anything forming a characteristic and persistent feature in social or national life or habits.

Trachystomata :: Trachystomata (n. pl.) An order of tailed aquatic amphibians, including Siren and Pseudobranchus. They have anterior legs only, are eel-like in form, and have no teeth except a small patch on the palate. The external gills are persistent through life..

Persistence :: Persistence (n.) Alt. of Persistenc.

Persistency :: Persistency (n.) The quality or state of being persistent; staying or continuing quality; hence, in an unfavorable sense, doggedness; obstinacy..

Persistency :: Persistency (n.) Visual persistence, or persistence of the visual impression; auditory persistence, etc..

Phenakistoscope :: Phenakistoscope (n.) A revolving disk on which figures drawn in different relative attitudes are seen successively, so as to produce the appearance of an object in actual motion, as an animal leaping, etc., in consequence of the persistence of the successive visual impressions of the retina. It is often arranged so that the figures may be projected upon a screen..

Persistency :: Persistency (n.) The continuance of an effect after the cause which first gave rise to it is remove.

Persevering :: Persevering (a.) Characterized by perseverance; persistent.

Primordialism :: Primordialism (n.) Devotion to, or persistence in, conditions of the primordial state..

Outgaze :: Outgaze (v. t.) To gaze beyond; to exceed in sharpness or persistence of seeing or of looking; hence, to stare out of countenance..

Continue :: Continue (v. i.) To be steadfast or constant in any course; to persevere; to abide; to endure; to persist; to keep up or maintain a particular condition, course, or series of actions; as, the army continued to advance..

Insistence :: Insistence (n.) The quality of insisting, or being urgent or pressing; the act of dwelling upon as of special importance; persistence; urgency..

Nagging :: Nagging (a.) Fault-finding; teasing; persistently annoying; as, a nagging toothache..

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..

Persisting :: Persisting (a.) Inclined to persist; tenacious of purpose; persistent.

Indeciduous :: Indeciduous (a.) Not deciduous or falling, as the leaves of trees in autumn; lasting; evergreen; persistent; permanent; perennial..

Toxodonta :: Toxodonta (n.pl.) An extinct order of Mammalia found in the South American Tertiary formation. The incisor teeth were long and curved and provided with a persistent pulp. They are supposed to be related both to the rodents and ungulates. Called also Toxodontia.

Sinner :: Sinner (n.) One who has sinned; especially, one who has sinned without repenting; hence, a persistent and incorrigible transgressor; one condemned by the law of God..

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