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adjective

Peremptory adj.

Precluding debate or expostulation; not admitting of question or appeal; positive; absolute; decisive; conclusive; final. "Think of heaven with hearty purposes and peremptory designs to get thither."

Positive in opinion or judgment; decided; dictatorial; dogmatical. "Be not too positive and peremptory." "Briefly, then, for we are peremptory."

Firmly determined; unawed. (Poetic)

Peremptory challenge (Law) See under Challenge.

Peremptory mandamus, a final and absolute mandamus.

Peremptory plea, a plea by a defendant tending to impeach the plaintiff's right of action; a plea in bar.

Synonyms: Decisive; positive; absolute; authoritative; express; arbitrary; dogmatical.

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Etymology of 'Peremptory'

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"Peremptory" Quotes from Famous Books

... dreamer in a tree-top were interrupted by the peremptory notes of a tin horn from the farmhouse below. The boy recognized this not only as a signal of declining day and the withdrawal of the sun behind the mountains, but as a personal and urgent notification to him that a certain amount of disenchanting ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... all that, the Honorable Blake received the Old Man's letter, read it through slowly and afterwards stroked down his Vandyke beard and laughed quietly to himself. The letter itself was both peremptory and profane, and commanded the Honorable Blake to do exactly what he had already done, and what he intended to do when the time came for ...

— The Flying U's Last Stand • B. M. Bower

... out, running at the top of her speed, heedless even of the peremptory challenge of the sentries, who thought her mad or stricken with the plague, and made no attempt to molest her. She ran straight to Jones's quarters. He was writing, and started in surprise as she entered panting ...

— The Iron Game - A Tale of the War • Henry Francis Keenan

... to Mahamed and reported his defeat and losses; upon hearing which, Mahamed at once said to him, "What do you mean by returning to me empty-handed? go back at once and recover your things else how can I make my report at Gondokoro?" With these peremptory orders Bukhet went back to Panyoro, and commenced to attack it. The contest did not last long; for, after three of Bukhet's men had been wounded, he set fire to the villages, killed fifteen of the natives, and, besides recovering his own lost property, ...

— The Discovery of the Source of the Nile • John Hanning Speke

... arose first from its trade in salt. I remember reading in history, that when the king of Hungary opened certain productive salt mines in his dominions, the Venetians sent him a peremptory order to shut them up; and such was the power of the Republic at that time, that he was forced to obey this insolent command, to the great injury and impoverishment of his states. The tables are now turned; the ...

— The Diary of an Ennuyee • Anna Brownell Jameson

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