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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.

Failure to mortify the passions. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

After death; as, post-mortem rigidity. Post-mortem examination (Med.), an examination of the body made after the death of the patient; an autopsy.

To loosen, unfix, or separate, as things mortised together. Tennyson.

The joint or interstice between stones, to be filled with mortar. Gwilt.

A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals.

A second crop or harvest in the same year. Mortimer.

The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it.

Immorality; also, the nectar conferring immortality. -- a. Ambrosial; immortal.

choose an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals. Boyle.

two propositions which constitute an enthymeme or contracted syllogism; as, Every man is mortal; therefore the king must die.

The act of elevating a mortal to the rank of, and placing him among, "the gods;" deification.

for the better government of the army. -- In the article of death Etym: [L. in articulo mortis], at the moment of death; in the dying struggle. -- Lords of the articles (Scot. Hist.), a standing committee of the Scottish Parliament to whom was intrusted the drafting and preparation of the acts, or bills for laws. -…

Cannon; great guns; ordnance, including guns, mortars, howitzers, etc., with their equipment of carriages, balls, bombs, and shot of all kinds.