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Mortal
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- 1 Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
- 2 Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
"Blyndfold he was; and in his cruell fist A mortall bow and arrowes keene did hold […]"
- 3 Punishable by death.
- 4 Fatally vulnerable.
"Last of all, against himself he turns his sword, but missing the mortal place, with his poniard finishes the work."
- 5 Of or relating 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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- 6 Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly; related to a life-and-death struggle.
"mortal enemy"
- 7 Human; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal.
"mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power"
- 8 Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
"a sermon lasting two mortal hours"
- 9 Very drunk. Geordie, Scotland, slang
"Thats^([sic]) nothing, says Tequila Sheila, who told how the summer she was housemaid in The Saint Columba she took this guy back to the staff flats while mortal on slammers and crashed out on him before anything could happen."
- 10 Causing spiritual death.
- 1 causing or capable of causing death wordnet
- 2 unrelenting and deadly wordnet
- 3 subject to death wordnet
- 4 involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death wordnet
- 1 Mortally; enough to cause death. colloquial, not-comparable
"It's mortal cold out there."
- 1 A human; someone susceptible to death.
"Her wisdom was beyond that of a mere mortal."
- 2 a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English mortal, mortel, from Old French mortal, and their source Latin mortālis, from mors (“death”). In this sense, displaced native deadly, from Old English dēadlīċ.
From Middle English mortal, mortel, from Old French mortal, and their source Latin mortālis, from mors (“death”). In this sense, displaced native deadly, from Old English dēadlīċ.
From Middle English mortal, mortel, from Old French mortal, and their source Latin mortālis, from mors (“death”). In this sense, displaced native deadly, from Old English dēadlīċ.
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