Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Perdition

Perdition (pẽr*dish"un) , noun

[French, from Latin perditio, from perdere, perditum, to ruin, to lose; per (compare Sanskrit parā away) + -dere (only in comp.) to put; akin to Greek tiqe`nai, English do. See Do.]

1.
Entire loss; utter destruction; ruin.
The mere perdition of the Turkish fleet. — Shakespeare
2.
(religion) Damnation; the utter loss of the soul, or of final happiness in a future state; future misery or eternal death.
If we reject the truth, we seal our own perdition. — J. M. Mason
3.
Loss or diminution. [Obsolete] — Shakespeare
4.
Hell; hades; as, on the path to perdition.