Origin: Latin suffix -ory
Peremptory has 5 different meanings across 1 category:
A challenge to the admission of a juror, without the challenger needing to show good cause.
offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
"an autocratic person"
"autocratic behavior"
"a bossy way of ordering others around"
"a rather aggressive and dominating character"
"managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"
"a swaggering peremptory manner"
Precluding debate or expostulation; not admitting of question or appeal