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n. 1 The chaos and confusion of life. 2 The physical body of man (containing the spirit inside).
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Mortal coil is a poetic term that means the troubles of daily life and the strife and suffering of the world. It is used in the sense of a burden to be carried or abandoned, such as in the phrase "shuffle[d] off this mortal coil" from the " To be, or not to be" soliloquy in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Mortal coil is a quotation from Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Mortal coil may also refer to:
- "Mortal Coil" (Star Trek: Voyager), a 1997 episode from the TV series Star Trek: Voyager
- Mortal Coil: Adrenalin Intelligence, a 1995 computer video game
- Skulduggery Pleasant: Mortal Coil, the fifth book in the Skulduggery Pleasant series
- Mortal Coils, a 1922 collection of short stories by Aldous Huxley
- This Mortal Coil, a British dream pop band
- This Mortal Coil (book), a 1947 collection of short stories by Cynthia Asquith
- This Mortal Coil (Redemption album), 2011
- "The Mortal Coil", a 1992 two-part episode from the radio show Adventures in Odyssey
- "This Mortal Coil" (Stargate Atlantis), a 2007 episode from the TV series Stargate Atlantis
- "This Mortal Coil", a song by Carcass
"Mortal Coil" is the twelfth episode of the fourth season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager, the 80th episode overall. The episode originally aired on December 17, 1997 on the UPN network. Directed by Allan Kroeker, it was written by Bryan Fuller, and produced by Kenneth Biller and Joe Menosky.
Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet and Maquis crew of the starship USS Voyager after they were stranded in the Delta Quadrant far from the rest of the Federation. In this episode, it deals with a starring character's death, resurrection, and crisis of faith.
Usage examples of "mortal coil".
At several points during the training, Aydrian fell into his own soul stone and stepped free of his mortal coil, moving to the training monk.
She envisioned herself as a light source, a blazing sun, rightful owner of this mortal coil, and she fought back.
Heroism is the ultimate act of community, I think, the sense of belonging to something bigger than one's own mortal coil.
Slowlv, as the spasms died awav, I became aware of things outside our own small mortal coil, and realized that we lay in the midst of strangers, naked and helpless, shielded only by darkness.
Maybe she'd been dreaming of death and wanted it so badly she'd left her mortal coil for but a few moments.
Even in the Elysian fields, Virgil describes the souls of the happy as eager to drink of the wave which was to restore them to this mortal coil.
I believe in life everlasting, Randy, but I also know for a fact that once you've shaken off this mortal coil, you don't come back.