perendinate

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  1. To defer till the day after to-morrow; put off for a day. Blount, Glossographia.
  2. To defer going from day to day; to make an indefinitely long visit. [Rare.] The Master and scholars are not to permit any one to perendinate within their walls for a longer period than a fortnight. Willis and Clark, Arch. Hist. of the University of Cambridge, I., introd., p. 89. N. E. D.
  3. Perennial herb a plant which dies to the ground each year but has a persistent root.

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  • June 16 at 11: 59pm (but don't perendinate too long!) —  Planet Mozilla
  • perendinate: To put off until the day after tomorrow.
 

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  1. Middle Latin perendinare, procrastinate.
 

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