Becomes ruined

Usage examples of perishes.

For if while the man is alive the body deliquesces and decays, and yet the soul always weaves her garment anew and repairs the waste, then of course, when the soul perishes, she must have on her last garment, and this only will survive her.

And, if this is true, the inference clearly is, that when the strings of the body are unduly loosened or overstrained through disorder or other injury, then the soul, though most divine, like other harmonies of music or of works of art, of course perishes at once.

Now if any one maintained that the soul, being the harmony of the elements of the body, first perishes in that which is called death, how shall we answer him?

In fear all creation pays homage-but does not extol its moral, so everything perishes unbeautifully.

When faith perishes duty to moral doctrines perishes, we are without sin and endure for ever in all-devouring love.

Then, having nothing more to do, the devoted creature perishes in turn.