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Without end of existence or duration; everlasting; endless; immortal. That they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory. 2 Tim. ii. 10.

out beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration without end in the future; endless time. The high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity. Is. lvii. 15.

To make eternal or endless. This other [gift] served but to eternize woe. Milton.

The state of being everlasting; endless duration; indefinite duration.

Endless; boundless. [Obs.] Shak.

Through eternity; through endless ages, eternally.

A moving, inclined, endless apron on which ore is concentrated by a current of water; a kind of buddle.

ying motion in machinery. Frictional gearing. See under Frictional. -- Gearing chain, an endless chain transmitted motion from one sprocket wheel to another. See Illust. of Chain wheel. -- Spur gearing, gearing in which the teeth or cogs are ranged round either the concave or the convex surface (properly the latter)…

rd a benefactor; kindness awakened by a favor received; thankfulness. The debt immense of endless gratitude. Milton.

a tree, etc. Exploits done in the heart of France. Shak. Peace subsisting at the heart Of endless agitation. Wordsworth.

Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing. I am a woman, friendless, hopeless. Shak.

amors; incessant pain, etc. Against the castle gate, . . . Which with incessant force and endless hate, They batter'd day and night and entrance did await. Spenser.

Capable of endless repetition; -- said of certain forms of the canon, called also perpetual fugues, so constructed that their ends lead to their beginnings, and the performance may be incessantly repeated. Moore (Encyc. of Music).

Endless or indefinite number; great multitude; as an infinity of beauties. Broome.

Without termination; admitting no limit; boundless; endless; wearisomely protracted; as, interminable space or duration; interminable sufferings. That wild interminable waste of waves. Grainger.

The state of being endless.

Endless; as, interminate sleep. Chapman.

Interminable; interminate; endless; unending. [Obs.] Akenside.

Discord; a clashing of interests. "Endless jarrings and immortal hate." Dryden.

a dolorous tirade; -- generally used satirically. He has prolonged his complaint into an endless jeremiad. Lamb.