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mortal |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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}.] 1. Subject to death; destined to die; as man is mortal. 2. Destructive to life; causing or occasioning death; terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly; as a mortal wound; a mortal sin. 3. Fatally vulnerable; vital. Last of all against himself he turns his sword, but missing the mortal place with his poniard finishes the work --Milton. 4. Of or pertaining to the time of death. Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal or the mortal hour. --Pope. 5. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly. The nymph grew pale, and in a mortal fright. --Dryden. 6. Human; belonging to man, who is mortal; as mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power. The voice of God To mortal ear is dreadful. --Milton. 7. 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Mortal \Mor"tal\, n. A being subject to death; a human being man. ``Warn poor mortals left behind.'' --Tickell. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sin \Sin\, n. [OE. sinne, AS synn, syn; akin to D. zonde, OS sundia, OHG. sunta, G. s["u]nde, Icel., Dan. & Sw synd, L. sons, sontis, guilty, perhaps originally from the p. pr of the verb signifying, to be and meaning, the one who it is Cf {Authentic}, {Sooth}.] 1. Transgression of the law of God; disobedience of the divine command; any violation of God's will either in purpose or conduct; moral deficiency in the character; iniquity; as sins of omission and sins of commission. Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. --John viii. 34. Sin is the transgression of the law. --1 John iii. 4. I think 't no sin. To cozen him that would unjustly win. --Shak. Enthralled By sin to foul, exorbitant desires. --Milton. 2. An offense, in general; a violation of propriety; a misdemeanor; as a sin against good manners. I grant that poetry's a crying sin. --Pope. 3. A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin. He hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin. --2 Cor. v. 21. 4. An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person. [R.] Thy ambition, Thou scarlet sin, robbed this bewailing land Of noble Buckingham. --Shak. Note: Sin is used in the formation of some compound words of obvious signification; as sin-born; sin-bred, sin-oppressed, sin-polluted, and the like {Actual sin}, {Canonical sins}, {Original sin}, {Venial sin}. See under {Actual}, {Canonical}, etc {Deadly}, or {Mortal}, {sins} (R. C. Ch.), willful and deliberate transgressions, which take away divine grace; -- in distinction from vental sins. The seven deadly sins are pride, covetousness, lust, wrath, gluttony, envy, and sloth. {Sin eater}, a man who (according to a former practice in England) for a small gratuity ate a piece of bread laid on the chest of a dead person, whereby he was supposed to have taken the sins of the dead person upon himself. {Sin offering}, a sacrifice for sin; something offered as an expiation for sin. Syn: Iniquity; wickedness; wrong See {Crime}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: mortal adj 1: subject to death; "mortal beings" [ant: {immortal}] 2: (theology) involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death; "the seven deadly sins" [syn: {deadly}, {mortal(a)}] 3: unrelenting and deadly; "mortal enemy" [syn: {mortal(a)}] 4: causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness" [syn: {deadly}, {deathly}] n : a human being "there was too much for one person to do" [syn: {person}, {individual}, {someone}, {somebody}, {human}, {soul}]
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