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a1500 ( G. Ripley Compend of Alchemy (Ashm.) l. 264 Oure basylyke..oure grette elyxare..sleyth crewede mercurye..In twynklyng of an eye moste..sodenly, that mercury teyneth permanently.

1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie lxxviii. 145 The feare heeld not permanentlie.

1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity i. i. xiv. 48 That Law which is writ in our hearts by the finger of God, durably and permanently.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. x. 241 The Words, for the most part, standing for arbitrary and numerous Collections of Ideas, not regularly and permanently united in Nature.

1703 Trag. King Saul Epil. Steadfast the last, and permanently true, Just to his Friend and to his Father too.

1782 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 72 203 Nor is there an instance of any earth rendered permanently fluid by any means, except in sparry air.

1817 R. Owen New View of Society (new ed.) 30 Are these false principles of conduct in those who govern the world to influence mankind permanently?

1850 M. C. Conkling Mem. Mother & Wife of Washington vii. 130 In addition to the dear and interesting companions who were added permanently to the members of her household.

1880 A. Geikie Elem. Lessons Physical Geogr. (new ed.) iv. 196 In volcanic districts the water is often even at the boiling~point, and remains so permanently.

1903 G. B. Shaw Man & Superman iii. 103 With such a majority as mine I cannot be kept permanently out of office.

1958 Oxf. Mag. 4 Dec. 164/2 Writers have been absorbed, permanently or temporarily, into the apparatus of creative writing workshops.

1997 J. Seabrook Deeper v. 150 It permanently affected the trust that those people had for each other in the face-to-face world, because they were never able to figure out who did it.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Air Various solid and mineral Bodies..being plunged in corrosive unelastick Menstrua..afford a considerable Quantity of permanently elastick Air.

1781 T. Cavallo (title) A treatise on the nature and properties of air, and other permanently elastic fluids.

1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts Gazolyta or Gazolytes, a name given by Berzelius to such simple gases as are permanently elastic. These are oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen.

1871 A. Ure Dict. Arts, Manuf., & Mines 438 In regarding coal gas, it is theoretically more correct to consider its luminosity, as arising from the presence of various volatile hydrocarbons or naphthas, rather than from any permanently elastic fluid.

1926 Times 19 May 19/6 A number of useful frocks..Most of them are permanently knife-pleated.]

1938 Times 4 July 9/2 (advt.) Knitted wool cardigan suit with permanently pleated skirt.

2000 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 19 Nov. 2 A cheaper, permanently pleated skirt.

1901 Times 1 June 5/3 She told him that her hair had been permanently waved.

2002 Illawarra (Australia) Mercury (Nexis) 8 June (Career section) 60 Hairdressers cut, style, colour, straighten and permanently wave hair with chemical solutions.

1929 A. Noyes Return of Scare-crow i. 11 There were pictures of permanently waved young women, with carefully arranged flowers in their hair.

1999 Independent (Nexis) 10 Oct. 30 Such a representation..might show a beak of a nose..and perhaps a great deal of permanently waved hair.