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Webster 1913 Edition


Unperishable

Un-per′ish-a-ble

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Adj.
Imperishable.

Webster 1828 Edition


Unperishable

UNPER'ISHABLE

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Adj.
Not perishable; not subject to decay. [The word now used is imperishable.]

Definition 2024


unperishable

unperishable

English

Adjective

unperishable (comparative more unperishable, superlative most unperishable)

  1. Not perishable.
    • 1891, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3:
      This venerable Person is represented looking forward as it were from the Verge of extreme Old Age, into a future State, and rising into a Contemplation on the unperishable Part of his Nature, and its Existence after Death.
    • 1912, Charles E Young, Dangers of the Trail in 1865:
      The perishable goods were placed in the large warehouses but the unperishable were covered with tarpaulin and left where unloaded.