leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal; imperative: a peremptory command.
2.
imperious or dictatorial.
3.
positive or assertive in speech, tone, manner, etc.
4.
Law.
a.
that precludes or does not admit of debate, question, etc.: a peremptory edict.
b.
decisive or final.
c.
in which a command is absolute and unconditional: a peremptory writ.
Origin: 1505–15; < L peremptōrius final, decisive, lit., deadly, destructive (deriv. of perimere to take away fully, destroy, slay), equiv. to per-per-+ em-, base of emere to buy, orig. to take + -tōrius-tory1, with intrusive p
"decisive," 1513, legal term, from Anglo-Fr. peremptorie, from M.Fr. peremtoire, from L. peremptorius "destructive, decisive, final," from peremptor "destroyer," from perimpere "destroy, cut off," from per- "away entirely, to destruction" + emere "to take" (see exempt). Of persons or their words, "certain, assured, brooking no debate," 1586.
[puh-remp-tuh-ree, per-uh
mp-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] 