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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mortal \Mor"tal\, 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.]
Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.
Destructive to life; causing or occasioning death; terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly; as, a mortal wound; a mortal sin.
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Fatally vulnerable; vital.
Last of all, against himself he turns his sword, but missing the mortal place, with his poniard finishes the work.
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Of or pertaining to the time of death.
Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal or the mortal hour.
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Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
The nymph grew pale, and in a mortal fright.
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Human; belonging to man, who is mortal; as, mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power.
The voice of God To mortal ear is dreadful.
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Very painful or tedious; wearisome; as, a sermon lasting two mortal hours. [Colloq.]
--Sir W. Scott.Mortal foe, Mortal enemy, an inveterate, desperate, or implacable enemy; a foe bent on one's destruction.
Mortal \Mor"tal\, n.
A being subject to death; a human being; man. ``Warn poor
mortals left behind.''
--Tickell.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "deadly," also "doomed to die," from Old French mortel "destined to die; deserving of death," from Latin mortalis "subject to death, mortal, of a mortal, human," from mors (genitive mortis) "death," from PIE base *mer- "to die," with derivatives referring to death and human beings" (cognates: Sanskrit mrtih "death," martah "mortal man;" Avestan miryeite "dies," Old Persian martiya- "man;" Armenian meranim "die;" Latin mori "to die;" Lithuanian mirtis "mortal man;" Greek brotos "mortal" (hence ambrotos "immortal"); Old Church Slavonic mrutvu "dead;" Old Irish marb, Welsh marw "died;" Old English morþ "murder"). The most widespread Indo-European root for "to die," forming the common word for it except in Greek and Germanic. Watkins says it is "possibly" the same as PIE *mer- "rub, pound, wear away" (see morbid).
"mortal thing or substance," 1520s, from mortal (adj.). Latin mortalis also was used as a noun, "a man, mortal, human being."
Wiktionary
a. 1 Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal. (from 14th c.) 2 Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.). (from 14th c.) 3 Fatally vulnerable; vital. 4 Of or relating to the time of death. 5 Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly. 6 Human; belonging to man, who is mortal. 7 Very painful or tedious; wearisome. 8 (context UK slang English) Very drunk; wasted; smashed. n. A human; someone susceptible to death.
WordNet
adj. subject to death; "mortal beings" [ant: immortal]
involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death; "the seven deadly sins" [syn: deadly, mortal(a)]
unrelenting and deadly; "mortal enemy" [syn: mortal(a)]
causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness" [syn: deadly, deathly]
Wikipedia
Mortal means susceptible to death; the opposite of immortality.
Mortal may alternatively refer to:
- Mortal (band), a Christian industrial band
- Mortal (novel), a science-fiction/fantasy novel by Ted Dekker and Tosca Lee
- Mortals (novel), a 2003 novel by Norman Rush
- Mortal Online, a 2010 video game by Star Vault
- Human, as distinct from a supernatural being
Mortal was a Christian industrial/ dance band fronted by Jerome Fontamillas and Jyro Xhan. Both members went on to found the alternative rock group Fold Zandura, and for a time were members of both bands simultaneously. The band is known for its lyrical intelligence, incorporating advanced theology with what has been billed as "Industrial Praise and Worship." According to CCM Magazine "Mortal has had a much greater influence... on industrial music than its modest output would suggest."
Forbidden is a science fiction fantasy novel by Ted Dekker and Tosca Lee, published in February 2013. It is the second book in a trilogy.
Usage examples of "mortal".
Was it because the people themselves, through their individual accumulative system, created conditions whereby only the most abject and debased mortals could survive?
Before a knight could indulge in mortal affray he was obliged to obtain the consent of his sovereign, provided that peace ruled between his country and that of his antagonist, as was the case between Spain and Burgundy.
The Allegiancy, for nearly two thousand years, had utilized the best within each of those who served it, remaining impervious to their inevitable, mortal pettiness.
Reason recognising it as such a nature, you may not hope to see it with mortal eyes, nor in any way that would be imagined by those who make sense the test of reality and so annul the supremely real.
The banks of the Danube were crowded on either side with spectators, who gazed on the military pomp, anticipated the importance of the event, and diffused through the adjacent country the fame of a young hero, who advanced with more than mortal speed at the head of the innumerable forces of the West.
He anticipated the hour of the attack, outstripped his tardy followers, and was pierced with a mortal wound, after he had slain with his own hand twelve of his boldest antagonists.
Edition: 11 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII The Project Gutenberg Etext of A Mortal Antipathy, by O.
The mortal antipathy had died out of the soul and the blood of Maurice Kirkwood at that supreme moment when he found himself snatched from the grasp of death and cradled in the arms of Euthymia.
The knotted blood within my hose, That from my wounded body flows, With mortal crisis doth portend My days to appropinque an end.
Johnson, partly from a desire to see it play more freely, and partly from that inclination to activity which will animate, at times, the most inert and sluggish mortal, took a long pole which was lying on a bank, and pushed down several parcels of this wreck with painful assiduity, while I stood quietly by, wondering to behold the sage thus curiously employed, and smiling with an humorous satisfaction each time when he carried his point.
The government of a mighty empire may assuredly suffice to occupy the time, and the abilities, of a mortal: yet the diligent prince, without aspiring to the unsuitable reputation of profound learning, always reserved some moments of his leisure for the instructive amusement of reading.
Lovers in like manner live on their capital from failure of income: they, too, for the sake of stifling apprehension and piping to the present hour, are lavish of their stock, so as rapidly to attenuate it: they have their fits of intoxication in view of coming famine: they force memory into play, love retrospectively, enter the old house of the past and ravage the larder, and would gladly, even resolutely, continue in illusion if it were possible for the broadest honey-store of reminiscences to hold out for a length of time against a mortal appetite: which in good sooth stands on the alternative of a consumption of the hive or of the creature it is for nourishing.
The two went down from the bartizan to meet him, and Springbuck considered, as he walked on, the peculiarity of the fact that he felt so much more familiar and at ease with Andre deCourteney, whose abilities and skills were intimidating, than he was with Van Duyn, who was by comparison not that many years older than the Prince, and a common mortal.
Visitors were not allowed at this late hour, but Benison had his influence in the mortal world and had arranged certain accomodations for Roger.
Guzman Bento, usually full of fanciful fears and brooding suspicions, had sudden accesses of unreasonable self-confidence when he perceived himself elevated on a pinnacle of power and safety beyond the reach of mere mortal plotters.