n. (pl. -dia) membranous sac enclosing the heart. [greek kardia heart]

—adj. - (of a teacher) working in more than one school or college etc.

- going from place to place; itinerant. —n. Peripatetic person, esp. A teacher. [greek pateo walk]

n. (pl. -phrases) 1 roundabout way of speaking; circumlocution.

- roundabout phrase. periphrastic adj. [greek: related to *phrase]

n. Involuntary muscular wavelike movement by which the contents of the digestive tract are propelled along it. [greek peristello wrap around]

n. Inflammatory disease of the peritoneum.

adj. Allowable. permissibility n. [french or medieval latin: related to *permit]

n. - one of the possible ordered arrangements or groupings of a set of things.

- combination or selection of a specified number of things from a larger group, esp. Matches in a football pool. [latin permuto change thoroughly]

n. (pl. -ies) 1 a person's distinctive character or qualities (has a strong personality). B socially attractive qualities (was clever but had no personality).

- famous person (tv personality).

- (in pl.) Personal remarks.

v. (also -ise) (-zing or -sing) 1 make personal, esp. By marking with one's name etc.

- personify.

—n. - a art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of relative positions, size, etc. B picture so drawn.

- apparent relation between visible objects as to position, distance, etc.

- mental view of the relative importance of things.

- view, esp. Stretching into the distance. —adj. Of or in perspective. in (or out of) perspective 1 drawn or viewed according (or not according) to the rules of perspective.

- correctly (or incorrectly) regarded in terms of relative importance. [latin perspicio -spect- look at]