1. make (something, typically an undesirable situation or an unfounded belief) continue indefinitely: "the law perpetuated the interests of the ruling class"
▪ preserve (something valued) from oblivion or extinction:"how did these first humans survive to perpetuate the species?"
Word Originearly 16th century: from Latin perpetuat- ‘made permanent’, from the verb perpetuare, from perpetuus ‘continuing throughout’ (see perpetual).
