peremptory

Meanings

Adjective

• Precluding debate or expostulation; not admitting of question or appeal
• Positive in opinion or judgment; absolutely certain, overconfident, unwilling to hear any debate or argument (especially in a pejorative sense); dogmatic.
• Firmly determined, resolute; obstinate, stubborn.
• Accepting no refusal or disagreement; imperious, dictatorial.

Noun

• A challenge to the admission of a juror, without the challenger needing to show good cause.

Origin

• From Anglo-Norman peremptorie, parentorie et al. (Modern French péremptoire), and its source, Latin peremptōrius, from perimō, from per- + emō.