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Mortal   /mˈɔrtəl/   Listen
adjective
Mortal  adj.  
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."
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."
5.
Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly. "The nymph grew pale, and in a mortal fright."
6.
Human; belonging to man, who is mortal; as, mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power. "The voice of God To mortal ear is dreadful."
7.
Very painful or tedious; wearisome; as, a sermon lasting two mortal hours. (Colloq.)
Mortal foe, Mortal enemy, an inveterate, desperate, or implacable enemy; a foe bent on one's destruction.



noun
Mortal  n.  A being subject to death; a human being; man. "Warn poor mortals left behind."






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"Mortal" Quotes from Famous Books



... yet with the living. Jane has silver locks in place of auburn tresses, but she has the early love of Henry still, and has never regretted her exchange of lovers. Frado has passed from their memories, as Joseph from the butler's, but she will never cease to track them till beyond mortal vision. ...
— Our Nig • Harriet E. Wilson

... Son,—(for all this while we can do nothing to help it forward; while the blessed plot is going on, we are posting the faster to our own destruction). And this is the way condescended upon; first, To fill up that wide gap between his divine spiritual nature, and our mortal fleshly nature, it is agreed upon, that the Son shall come in our flesh, and be made partaker of flesh and blood with the children; and this is meant by this promise, "the Redeemer shall come to Sion;" which is plainly expressed by his own mouth, John xvi. 28, "I came forth from the Father, and am ...
— The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning • Hugh Binning

... across Lord Mohun, both holding each other's sword fast, both striving and struggling with the fury of remorseless hatred. This awful scene was soon closed for ever, as far as Mohun was concerned. He expired shortly afterwards, having received four wounds, each of which was likely to be mortal. The Duke was raised and supported by Colonel Hamilton and one of the keepers; but after walking about thirty yards, exclaimed that "he could walk no farther," sank down upon the grass, and expired. His lifeless remains, mangled with wounds which showed the relentless fury of the ...
— Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. - Volume I. • Mrs. Thomson

... his labor. I told him I thought he had been rather cruel; but he said such a woman wanted a lesson. He said also, that to see the sort of women who sometimes had the responsibility of training girls must make the angels weep; none but a heartless mortal like himself could laugh where conventionality and insincerity were taught in every hint as to posture and speech. It was bad enough, he said, to shape yourself into your own ideal; but to have to fashion yourself after the ideal of one whose sole object in teaching was to make money, was ...
— The Vicar's Daughter • George MacDonald

... assumed an entirely different complexion. With my youth restored I have the world at my feet once more, but safeguarded by the wisdom of experience—in so far as a mortal ever may be. The bare idea of that old game of prowling sex fills me with ennui and disgust. The body may be young again, but my mind, reenergized though it is, is packed with memories, a very Book of Life. When I found that my beauty was restored I thought of nothing ...
— Black Oxen • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton


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