[pəˈrɛm(p)t(ə)ri], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- insisting on immediate attention or obedience, especially in a brusquely imperious way
(e.g: ‘Just do it!’ came the peremptory reply)


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Origin:
late Middle English (as a legal term): via Anglo-Norman French from Latin peremptorius ‘deadly, decisive’, from perempt- ‘destroyed, cut off’, from the verb perimere, from per- ‘completely’ + emere ‘take, buy’