(especially of somebody’s manner or behaviour )尤指态度、举止 expecting to be obeyed immediately and without questioning or refusing 强硬的;强制的;不容分辩的 a peremptory summons 强制性传票 The letter was peremptory in tone. 信中的语气强硬。 with a peremptory wave of his hand 他专横地挥了挥手
Word Originlate 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’.