Meaning

1 senses

  1. A challenge to the admission of a juror, without the challenger needing to show good cause.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. There was no point in arguing after such a peremptory command.

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  2. NB. This saying is a bit peremptory.

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  3. “Request nothing of ME, my lord,” said the stranger, in a stern and peremptory tone; “I am the Master of Ravenswood.”

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Origin

From Anglo-Norman peremptorie, parentorie et al. (Modern French péremptoire), and its sour

From Anglo-Norman peremptorie, parentorie et al. (Modern French péremptoire), and its source, Latin peremptōrius (“deadly; precluding debate, decisive”), from perimō (“destroy, thwart”), from per- (“thorough”) + emō (“to obtain, buy”).

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Forms

plural: peremptories
Singularperemptory
Pluralperemptories

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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