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require. By the fame aft, fubornation of perjury is pu- 
nilhable as perjury. 
To convifta man of perjury, a probable evidence is not 
enough; but it mull be a ftrong and clear evidence, 
and the witneffes tnuft be more numerous than thofe on 
the fide of the defendant, for otherwife it is only oath 
againft oath. 10 Mod. 194. Sir. 1230. Itfeems that the 
court will not ordinarily at the prayer of a defendant 
grant a certiorari for the removal of an indiftment of 
perjury; for fuch crime deferves all poffible difcounte- 
nance, and the certiorari might delay, if not wholly dis¬ 
courage, the profecution. a Hawk. c. 17. 
Quakers making folemn affirmation wilfully and cor¬ 
ruptly ffiall fuffer as in cafes of perjury. 8 Geo. c. 6. 
If perjury be committed in a fpiritual caufe, the fpiri- 
tual judge hath authority to inflift canonical puniffiment, 
and prohibition will not go. But the judge cannot pu- 
niffi pro fainte animce ; and the party grieved by fuch per¬ 
jury muft recover his damages at the common law. In 
the ftatute of the 5 Eliz. c. 23, concerning the writ de 
excommunicato capiendo , perjury in the ecclefiaftical court 
is fpecified as an offence, among others, for which a per- 
fon may be excommunicated ; and conviftion of perjury, 
either in the temporal or ecclefiaftical courts, is caufe of 
deprivation of benefice. 
PER'IWIG, f. [perruque, Fr. The formation of our 
word, from the French, is curious ; and I am furprifed, 
fays Mr. Todd, that Dr. Johnfon ffiould have taken no 
notice of it. Late in the fixteenth century, it was writ¬ 
ten perwiclie, as by T. Churchyard ; and in the follow¬ 
ing, perewahe, by. Fuller; afterwards it became periwig; 
and in modern times has funk into wig. ] Adlcititious 
hair; hair not natural, worn by way of ornament or con¬ 
cealment of baldnefs.—For vailing of their vifages, his 
liighnefs and the marquifs bought each a periwig, fome- 
what to overffiadow their foreheads. Wotton. 
Her hair is auburn, mine is perfeft yellow ; 
If that be all the difference in his love, 
I’ll get me fuch a colour’d periwig. Shakefpeare. 
From her own head Megara takes 
A periwig of twilled fnakes. Swift. 
To PER'IWIG, v.a. To drefs in falfe hair.—Having 
by much drefs, and fecrecy, and diffimulation, as it 
were periiuigged his fin and covered his ilia me, he looks 
after no other innocence but concealment. South's 
Sermons. 
Now when the winter’s keener breath began 
To cryftallize the Baltic ocean, 
To glaze the lakes, to bridle up the floods. 
And periwig with (now the bald-pate woods. Sylvejler. 
Near the door an entrance gapes, 
Crouded round with antic ftiapes, 
Difcord periwigg'd with fnakes, 
See the dreadful ftrides ffie takes. Swift's Mifcell. 
PER'IWIG-PATED, adj. Wearing a wig.— It offends 
me to hear a robuftious periwig-pated fellow tear a paffion 
to tatters, to fplit the ears of the groundlings. Shake¬ 
fpeare. 
PER'IWINKLE, /. A fmall ffiell-filh ; a kind of fifh- 
fnail ; the Turbo littoreus.—Thetis is reprefented by a 
lady of a brownilh complexion, her hair difhevelled about 
her flioulders, upon her head a coronet of periwinkle and 
efcalop ffiells. Peacham. —A plant. See Vinca. —There 
are in ufe, for the prevention of the cramp, bands of green 
periwinkle tied about the calf of the leg. Bacon.-- The 
common fimples with us are comfry, bugle, ladies’ man¬ 
tle, and periwinkle. Wifeman s Surgery. 
PERIZO'MA, /. [from the Greek.] A kind of girdle 
or trufs for a rupture. 
PERIZO'NIUS (James), a learned critic, was born in 
1651 at Dam, in the province of Groningen, where his 
father was mailer of the public fchool. His family-name 
629 
was Varbrek, which, according to the pedantry of the 
times, he changed to Perizonius, having a fimilar fignifi- 
cation in Greek. James ftudied at Deventer under Gif- 
bert Cuper, and afterwards at Utrecht under Gnevius. 
The invafion of Louis XIV. interrupted his academical 
ftudiesin 167a; but he relumed them in 1674. at Leyden, 
where he attended the leftures of Ryckius. Ilis firft pub¬ 
lic employment was that of reftor of the Latin fchool at 
Delft. In 1681, he was appointed to the chair of hiftory 
and eloquence at Franeker, and in 1693 he removed to 
the fame profefforffiip, with that of the Greek language, 
at Leyden. He died, unmarried, in 1715, in his 64th 
year. This induftrious fcholar was the author of a num¬ 
ber of learned works, of which the following are the 
principal: 1. Animadverfiones Hiftoricte, 1685, 8 vo. con¬ 
fiding of explanations of many paffages in the Greek 
and Latin writers. 2. Differtations, in feveral volumes 
4to. chiefly relative to Roman hiftory. 3. Orations. 4. 
Origines Babylonicte et Aigyptiacas, 2 vols. 8vo. 1736. a 
very learned performance, in which various errors of Sir 
John Marfham are correfted. 5. A11 Edition of ZElian’s 
Various Hiftory, with a Commentary. 6. Rerum per Euro- 
pam, l'seculo xvii. maxime Geftarum Comment. Hiftor. 
Perizonius had collefted a numerous and well-chofen li¬ 
brary, and a cabinet of medals, which were fold after his 
death. He left to the Univerfity of Leyden feveral an¬ 
cient manufcripts, and fcarce editions of claffics. Moreri. 
PF.R'IZZITES, the ancient inhabitants of Palelline, 
mingled with the Canaanites. There is alfo great proba¬ 
bility that they themfelves were Canaanites ; but having 
no fixed habitations, fometimes difperfed in one country 
and fometimes in another, they were for that reafon 
called Perizzites, which fignifies “ fcattered or difperfed.” 
Pherazotli Hands for “ hamlets, or villages.” The Pe¬ 
rizzites did not inhabit any certain portion of the land 
of Canaan ; there were fome of them on both fides the 
river Jordan, in the mountains, and in the plains. In 
feveral places of Scripture the Canaanites and Perizzites 
are mentioned as the two chief people of the country. 
It is faid, for example, that in the time of Abraham and 
Lot the Canaanite and Perizzite were in the land, (Gen. 
xiii. 7.) The Ifraelites of the tribe of Ephraim com¬ 
plaining to Jofliua that they were too much pent up in 
their poffeffion, (Jofli. xvii. 14.) he bade them go, if they 
pleafed, into the mountains of the Perizzites, and Re- 
phaims or giants, and there, clearing the land, to culti¬ 
vate and inhabit it. Solomon fubdued the remains of 
the Canaanites and Perizzites which the children of 
Ifrael had not rooted out, and made them tributary to 
him : (1 Kings ix. 20, 21. 2 Chr. viii. 7.) There is ftill 
mention made of the Perizzites in the time of Ezra, 
(ix. 1.) after the return from the captivity of Babylon; 
and feveral Ifraelites had married wives from that nation. 
To PERK, v.n. [from perch. Skinner .—The original 
word is ufed by Nalh in his Lenten Stuffe, 1599. “ In 
1240 it perch'd up to be governed by balies.” Probably 
from a bird’s mounting on a perch in his cage. Malone .] 
To hold up the head with an affefted brilknefs.—Is not 
this therefore a fit biftiop of Pergamus, that perks thus 
above all kings, and emperonrs, and princes of the earth ? 
More on the Seven Churches. 
If, after all, you think it a difgrace, 
That Edward’s mifs thus perks in your face; 
To fee a piece of failing flelh and blood, 
In all the reft fo impudently good ; 
Faith, let the modeft matrons of the town 
Come here in crouds, and dare the ftrumpet down. Pope. 
To PERK, v.a. To drefs; to prank : 
’Tis better to be lowly born, 
And range with humble livers in content, 
Than to be perk'd up in a glift’ring grief, 
And wear a golden borrow. Shakefpeare's Hen. VIII. 
PERK, adj. Pert 5 brifk 3 airy. Objolete, Dr. John¬ 
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