• (British) IPA: /pəˈɹɛmptəɹi/

peremptory

1. (legal) Precluding debate or expostulation; not admitting of question or appeal
   • 1596, Francis Bacon, Maxims of the Law, II:

     there is no reason but if any of the outlawries be indeed without error, but it should be a peremptory plea to the person in a writ of error, as well as in any other action.

   Synonyms: positive, absolute, decisive, conclusive, final
2. Positive in opinion or judgment; absolutely certain, overconfident, unwilling to hear any debate or argument (especially in a pejorative sense); dogmatic.
   • 2003, Andrew Marr, The Guardian, 6 Jan 03:

     He marched under a placard reading "End Bossiness Now" but decided it was a little too peremptory, not quite British, so changed the slogan on subsequent badges, to "End Bossiness Soon."

3. (obsolete) Firmly determined, resolute; obstinate, stubborn.
4. Accepting no refusal or disagreement; imperious, dictatorial.
   • 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter I, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, OCLC 884653065 ↗; republished New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1953, →ISBN:

     […] less surprising than that he had been depressed by a book. Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.

   • 1999, Anthony Howard, The Guardian, 2 Jan 99:

     Though today (surveying that yellowing document) I shudder at the peremptory tone of the instructions I gave, Alastair - in that same volume in which I get chastised for my coverage of the Macmillan rally - was generous enough to remark that my memorandum became 'an office classic'.

• French: irréfutable, sans appel, péremptoire
• German: unabweisbar, entschieden
• Italian: irrefutabile, inconfutabile
• Portuguese: irrefutável
• Russian: безапелляцио́нный
• Spanish: irrefutable, irrebatible, inapelable

• French: péremptoire
• Italian: perentorio, imperioso
• Russian: догмати́ческий
• Spanish: perentorio

• French: impérieux, autoritaire, dictatorial
• Italian: tassativo
• Russian: повели́тельный
• Spanish: imperioso, autoritario, dictatorial

peremptory (plural peremptories)

1. (law) A challenge to the admission of a juror, without the challenger needing to show good cause.
   • 2015 June 18, Justice Alito, Davis v. Ayala ↗, Case No. 13-1428:

     Each side was allowed 20 peremptories, and the prosecution used 18 of its allotment.