Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Perdure \Per*dure"\, v. i. [L. perdurare; per trough + durare to
   last.]
   To last or endure for a long time; to be perdurable or
   lasting. [Archaic]

         The mind perdures while its energizing may construct a
         thousand lines.                          --Hickok.