a. [ L. immortalis; pref. im- not + mortalis mortal: cf. F. immortel. See Mortal, and cf. Immortelle. ] 1. Not mortal; exempt from liability to die; undying; imperishable; lasting forever; having unlimited, or eternal, existance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible. 1 Tim. i. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

For my soul, what can it do to that,
Being a thing immortal as itself? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Connected with, or pertaining to immortality. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have immortal longings in me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Destined to live in all ages of this world; abiding; exempt from oblivion; imperishable; as, immortal fame. [ 1913 Webster ]

One of the few, immortal names,
That were not born to die. Halleck. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Great; excessive; grievous. [ Obs. ] Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

Immortal flowers, immortelles; everlastings.

Syn. -- Eternal; everlasting; never-ending; ceaseless; perpetual; continual; enduring; endless; imperishable; incorruptible; deathless; undying. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who will never cease to be; one exempt from death, decay, or annihilation. Bunyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who holds the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. [ R. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Immortalities [ L. immortalitas: cf. F. immortalité. ] 1. The quality or state of being immortal; exemption from death and annihilation; unending existance; as, the immortality of the soul. [ 1913 Webster ]

This mortal must put on immortality. 1 Cor. xv. 53. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Exemption from oblivion; perpetuity; as, the immortality of fame. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of immortalizing, or state of being immortalized. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Immortalized p. pr. & vb. n. Immortalizing ] [ Cf. F. immortaliser. ] 1. To render immortal; to cause to live or exist forever. S. Clarke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To exempt from oblivion; to perpetuate in fame. [ 1913 Webster ]

Alexander had no Homer to immortalize his guilty name. T. Dawes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become immortal. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an immortal manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. mortel, L. mortalis, from mors, mortis, death, fr. moriri 8die; akin to E. murder. See Murder, and cf. Filemot, Mere a lake, Mortgage. ] 1. Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Destructive to life; causing or occasioning death; terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly; as, a mortal wound; a mortal sin. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Fatally vulnerable; vital. [ 1913 Webster ]

Last of all, against himself he turns his sword, but missing the mortal place, with his poniard finishes the work. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Of or pertaining to the time of death. [ 1913 Webster ]

Safe in the hand of one disposing Power,
Or in the natal or the mortal hour. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly. [ 1913 Webster ]

The nymph grew pale, and in a mortal fright. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Human; belonging to man, who is mortal; as, mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power. [ 1913 Webster ]

The voice of God
To mortal ear is dreadful. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Very painful or tedious; wearisome; as, a sermon lasting two mortal hours. [ Colloq. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mortal foe,
Mortal enemy, an inveterate, desperate, or implacable enemy; a foe bent on one's destruction. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A being subject to death; a human being; man. “Warn poor mortals left behind.” Tickell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. mortalitas: cf. F. mortalité. ] 1. The condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying. [ 1913 Webster ]

When I saw her die,
I then did think on your mortality. Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Human life; the life of a mortal being. [ 1913 Webster ]

From this instant
There 's nothing serious in mortality. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Those who are, or that which is, mortal; the human race; humanity; human nature. [ 1913 Webster ]

Take these tears, mortality's relief. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Death; destruction. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The whole sum or number of deaths in a given time or a given community; also, the proportion of deaths to population, or to a specific number of the population; death rate; as, a time of great, or low, mortality; the mortality among the settlers was alarming. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bill of mortality. See under Bill. --
Law of mortality, a mathematical relation between the numbers living at different ages, so that from a given large number of persons alive at one age, it can be computed what number are likely to survive a given number of years. --
Table of mortality, a table exhibiting the average relative number of persons who survive, or who have died, at the end of each year of life, out of a given number supposed to have been born at the same time. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Mortalized p. pr. & vb. n. Mortalizing ] To make mortal. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In a mortal manner; so as to cause death; as, mortally wounded. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In the manner of a mortal or of mortal beings. [ 1913 Webster ]

I was mortally brought forth. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. In an extreme degree; to the point of dying or causing death; desperately; as, mortally jealous. [ 1913 Webster ]

Adrian mortally envied poets, painters, and artificers, in works wherein he had a vein to excel. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being mortal; mortality. [ 1913 Webster ]

See high.
See honorable.
See hopeful.
See hostile.
See hurt.
See hhurtful.
See hygienic.
See ideal.
See idle.
See illusory.
See imaginable.
See imaginative.
See immortal.
See implicit.
See important.
See impressible. See >Unimpressible.
See impressionable.
See improvable.
See impugnable.
See incidental.
See increasable.
See indifferent.
See indulgent.
See industrious.
See inflammable.
See influential.
See ingenious.
See ingenuous.
See inhabitable.
See injurious.
See inquisitive.
See instructive.
See intelligent.
See intelligible.
See intentional.
See interesting.
See interpretable.
See inventive.
See investigable.
See jealous.
See joyful.
See joyous.
See justifiable.
See kingly.
See knightly.
See knotty.
See knowable.
See laborious.
See ladylike.
See level.
See libidinous.
See lightsome.
See limber.
See lineal.
See logical.
See lordly.
See losable.
See lovable.
See lucent.
See luminous.
See lustrous.
See lusty.
See maidenly.
See makable.
See malleable.
See manageable.
See manful.
See manlike.
See manly.
See marketable.
See marriable.
See marriageable.
See marvelous.
See masculine.
See matchable.
See matronlike.
See meek.
See meet.
See melodious.
See mendable.
See mentionable.
See mercenary.
See merciable.
See meritable.
See merry.
See metaphorical.
See mighty.
See mild.
See military.
See mindful.
See mingleable.
See miraculous.
See miry.
See mitigable.
See modifiable.
See modish.
See moist.
See monkish.
See motherly.
See muscular.
See musical.
See mysterious.
See namable.
See native.
See navigable.
See needful.
See negotiable.
See niggard.
See noble.
See objectionable.
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