perdulousadj.
Misprint of pendulous (see pendulous adj.) in J. Bramhall Defence of True Liberty (1655) 25 (the reading is corrected in subsequent editions, 1676, 1677, etc.).
ΚΠ
1655 J. Bramhall Def. True Liberty 25 There may be some wandring perdulous wishes of known impossibilities.]
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Perdulous, lost; thrown away. [Also in later dictionaries.]
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
<
adj.1755- ophthalmopathy
- ophthalmophore
- ophthalmophores
- ophthalmophoria
- ophthalmophorium
- ophthalmophorous
- ophthalmophthisis
- ophthalmoplasty
- ophthalmoplegia
- ophthalmoplegic
- ophthalmoplegy
- ophthalmoscope
- ophthalmoscopes
- ophthalmoscopic
- ophthalmoscopical
- ophthalmoscopically
- ophthalmoscopies
- ophthalmoscopist
- ophthalmoscopy
- ophthalmostate
- ophthalmotomy
- ophthalmotonometer
- ophthalmotonometry
- ophthalmotrope
- ophthalmotropometer