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Mortal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Subject to death; destined to die. Man is mortal

2. Deadly; destructive to life; causing death, or that must cause death; as a mortal wound; mortal poison.

3. The fruit

4. Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste

5. Brought death into the world, and all our woe--

6. Bringing death; terminating life.

7. Safe in the hand of one disposing power,

8. Or in the natal or the mortal hour.

9. Deadly in malice or purpose; as a mortal foe. In colloquial language, a mortal foe is an inveterate foe.

10. Exposing to certain death; incurring the penalty of death; condemned to be punished with death; not venial; as a mortal sin.

11. Human; belonging to man who is mortal; as mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power.

12. The voice of God

13. To mortal ear is dreadful.

14. Extreme; violent. [Not elegant.]

15. The nymph grew pale, and in a mortal fright--

Mortal [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Man; a being subject to death; a human being.

2. Warn poor mortals left behind.

3. It is often used in ludicrous and colloquial language.

4. I can behold no mortal now.

Mortal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

4. Of or pertaining to the time of death.

5. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.

6. Human; belonging to man, who is mortal; as, mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power.

7. Very painful or tedious; wearisome; as, a sermon lasting two mortal hours.

Mortal [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A being subject to death; a human being; man.

Mortality [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Subjection to death or the necessity of dying.

2. When I saw her die,

3. I then did think on your mortality

4. Death.

5. Gladly would I meet

6. Mortality, my sentence.

7. Frequency of death; actual death of great numbers of men or beasts; as a time of great mortality

8. Human nature.

9. Take these tears, mortality's relief.

10. Power of destruction.

11. Mortality and mercy in Vienna,

12. Live in thy tongue and heart.

Mortality [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying.

2. Human life; the life of a mortal being.

3. Those who are, or that which is, mortal; the human cace; humanity; human nature.

4. Death; destruction.

5. The whole sum or number of deaths in a given time or a given community; also, the proportion of deaths to population, or to a specific number of the population; death rate; as, a time of great, or low, mortality; the mortality among the settlers was alarming.

Mortality tables Encyclopedia Britannica

MORTALITY TABLES. See Insurance, vol. xiii. p. 169 sq.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 16, p. 848
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Mortalize [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To make mortal.

Mortalize [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To make mortal.

Mortalized [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Mortalize

Mortalizing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Mortalize

Mortally [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Irrecoverably; in a manner that must cause death; as mortally wounded.

2. Extremely.

3. Adrian mortally envied poets, painters and artificers, in works wherein he had a vein to excel.

Mortally [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. In a mortal manner; so as to cause death; as, mortally wounded.

2. In the manner of a mortal or of mortal beings.

3. In an extreme degree; to the point of dying or causing death; desperately; as, mortally jealous.

Mortalness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Quality of being mortal; mortality.

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Genesis 6:3

And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”

Deuteronomy 19:11

But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:

If, however, a man hates his neighbor and lies in wait, attacks him and kills him, and then flees to one of these cities,

2 Kings 20:1

In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.

In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”

2 Chronicles 14:11

And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.

Then Asa cried out to the LORD his God: “O LORD, there is no one besides You to help the powerless against the mighty. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on You, and in Your name we have come against this multitude. O LORD, You are our God. Do not let a mere mortal prevail against You.”

2 Chronicles 32:24

In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto the LORD: and he spake unto him, and he gave him a sign.

In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. So he prayed to the LORD, who spoke to him and gave him a sign.

Job 4:17

Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?

Job 9:2

I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?

Job 10:5

Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man’s days,

Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man,

Psalms 17:9

From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.

from the wicked who assail me, from my mortal enemies who surround me.

Psalms 82:7

But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.

But like mortals you will die, and like rulers you will fall.”

Psalms 90:3

Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”

Psalms 146:3

Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.

Isaiah 31:8

Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.

“Then Assyria will fall, but not by the sword of man; a sword will devour them, but not one made by mortals. They will flee before the sword, and their young men will be put to forced labor.

Isaiah 38:1

In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.

Isaiah 51:12

I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;

“I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?

Lamentations 3:39

Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?

Ezekiel 30:24

And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh’s arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.

I will strengthen the arms of Babylon’s king and place My sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, who will groan before him like a mortally wounded man.

Ezekiel 31:14

To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

This happened so that no other trees by the waters would become great in height and set their tops among the clouds, and no other well-watered trees would reach them in height. For they have all been consigned to death, to the depths of the earth, among the mortals who descend to the Pit.’

Daniel 2:11

And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.

What the king requests is so difficult that no one can tell it to him except the gods, whose dwelling is not with mortals.”

Romans 1:23

And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.