See Also: Mortal(medicine)
mortal(dictionary)
mortal sin(dictionary)
mortal 1, adjective(dictionary)
mortal 2, noun(dictionary)
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mortal (iou)



mortal adjective, adverb, & noun. LME.
[Old French, Latinized var. of Old & mod. French mortel, or directly from Latin mortalis, from mort-, mors death: see -AL1.]
A. adjective.
Subject to death, destined to die. LME.
A. Mason They were banished from the garden and..became mortal: prey to sickness, destined to old age and death.
b. Doomed to immediate death. E16-E17.
transf. Of or pertaining to humanity as subject to death; of or pertaining to material, temporal or earthly existence; associated with death. LME.
mortal mind Christian Science the source in humans of all delusion and error, creating the illusion of bodily sensations, pain, and illness. this mortal coil: see COIL noun1.
T. Keightley The axe descending, terminated his mortal existence.
a. Causing death; fatal; hyperbol. very hurtful or damaging. (Foll. by to.) LME.
L. Strachey The Duchess of York had been attacked by a mortal disease. A. G. Gardiner I have..seen a batsman receive a mortal blow from a ball.
b. Of pain, grief, fear, etc.: intense; very serious. LME.
A. Hutschnecker An hour of mortal dread when..I was facing a firing squad.
c. Pertaining to or accompanying death. LME.
d. Of a period of time or a region: characterized by many deaths. Now rare or obsolete. M17.
e. Destructive (to a thing). L17.
Christian Theology. Of sin: entailing damnation; depriving the soul of divine grace; = DEADLY adjective 4. Opp. venial. LME.
Merle Collins Missing church on Sundays was a mortal sin.
a. Of war, a battle, etc.: fought to the death. LME.
b. Of an enemy: relentless, implacable. LME.
Ld Macaulay Halifax..was the constant and mortal enemy of French ascendency.
c. (Of enmity, hatred, etc.) pursued to the death; unappeasable; having the character of such enmity. L15.
Addison A Tribe of Egoists for whom I have always had a mortal Aversion.
Conceivable, imaginable, (after any, every, no, etc.). Cf. EARTHLY adjective 4. colloq. E17.
J. Gardam He knew every mortal thing you did.
Extremely great, excessive. colloq. E18.
Dickens I was a mortal sight younger then.
[Ellipt. for mortal drunk below.] Very drunk. colloq. Chiefly Scot. & north. L18.
Long; tedious. colloq. E19.
Lytton And so on for 940 mortal pages.
b. adverb. Mortally; extremely, excessively. arch. Now dial. & slang. LME.
mortal drunk very drunk, = dead drunk s.v. DEAD adverb.
C. noun.
A being subject to death; a human being, as contrasted with an immortal. LME.
D. Rowe We are all fallible mortals. We all die. T. K. Wolfe God or Fate would refuse to be anticipated by a mere mortal.
loosely. A person. E18.
no mortal nobody.
mortalism noun (Christian Theology) belief in the mortality of the soul M17.
mortalist noun (Christian Theology) an adherent of mortalism M17-M18.
mortalize verb (a) verb intrans. become mortal; (b) verb trans. make mortal; consider or represent as mortal: L16.