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pertinacious, a.|pɜːtɪˈneɪʃəs|
Also 7 -atious, 7–8 -aceous.
[f. L. pertināci-, stem of pertināx (see pertinace) + -ous.]
Persistent or stubborn in holding to one's own opinion or design; resolute; obstinate. Chiefly as a bad quality.
1626Meade in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. III. 224 You will perceive my Lord Digby's pertinacious importunity to come to Parliament. a1635Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 21 Given to any violent or pertinatious dispute. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. iii. vi. §43 To dispight them, who are..pertinacious worshippers of one God. 1794Sullivan View Nat. V. 191 Pertinaceous bigotry may chuse to adhere to it. 1805Foster Ess. i. iv. 55 As pertinacious as ivy climbing a wall. a1859Macaulay Biog. (1867) 16 Atterbury became the most factious and pertinacious of all the opponents of the government.
b. Obstinately or persistently continuing; spec. of disease, etc., not yielding to treatment.
1646H. Lawrence Comm. Angells 60 Put them into a pertinatious and constant state of ill. 1675Grew Disc. Tasts Plants v. §6 The Barque of the Root..impresseth a pertinaceous and diffusive Taste. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. viii. 279 The Flux..is sometimes so pertinaceous, that it is impossible to stop it. a1785Glover Athenaid 1, Recumbent, not reposing, there Consumes the hours in pertinacious woe, Which sheds no tear. 1878Browning Poets Croisic xlix, Its pertinacious hues Must fade. |