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The act of exhorting, inciting, or giving advice; exhortation. [R.]

Giving exhortation; advisory; exhortative. Bullokar.

Giving exhortation or advise; encouraging; exhortatory; inciting; as, a hortatory speech. Holland.

Fit for a garden. [Obs.] Evelyn.

One who cultivates a garden.

Of or pertaining to horticulture, or the culture of gardens or orchards.

The cultivation of a garden or orchard; the art of cultivating gardens or orchards.

One who practices horticulture.

Belonging to a garden. [Obs.] Evelyn.

A collection of specimens of plants, dried and preserved, and arranged systematically; an herbarium.

An orchard. [Obs.]

More or less brittle when heated; as, hot-short iron.

Orthodoxy pushed to excess.

Not mortal; exempt from liability to die; undying; imperishable; lasting forever; having unlimited, or eternal, existance. Unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible. 1 Tim. i. 17. For my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself Shak.

One who holds the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

The quality or state of being immortal; exemption from death and annihilation; unending existance; as, the immortality of the soul. This mortal must put on immortality. 1 Cor. xv. 53.

The act of immortalizing, or state of being immortalized.

To render immortal; to cause to live or exist forever. S. Clarke.

In an immortal manner.

A plant with a conspicuous, dry, unwithering involucre, as the species of Antennaria, Helichrysum, Gomphrena, etc. See Everlasting.