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A creator; a maker; an author; an originator. [He] was the sire of an immortal strain. Shelley.

Slippery. [Obs.] O! trustless state of earthly things, and slipper hope Of mortal men. Spenser.

Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals. "To scorn the sordid world." Milton.

The spiritual, rational, and immortal part in man; that part of man which enables him to think, and which renders him a subject of moral government; -- sometimes, in distinction from the higher nature, or spirit, of man, the so-called animal soul, that is, the seat of life, the sensitive affections and phantasy, exclus…

eories; a theorist. A speculator who had dared to affirm that the human soul is by nature mortal. Macaulay.

The intelligent, immaterial and immortal part of man; the soul, in distinction from the body in which it resides; the agent or subject of vital and spiritual functions, whether spiritual or material. There is a spirit in man; and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. Job xxxii. 8. As the body witho…

A belief that departed spirits hold intercourse with mortals by means of physical phenomena, as by rappng, or during abnormal mental states, as in trances, or the like, commonly manifested through a person of special susceptibility, called a medium; spiritism; the doctrines and practices of spiritualists. What is calle…

llustrious. Dryden. The having turned many to righteousness shall confer a starlike and immortal brightness. Boyle.

, you make a short stay in this city. Make haste, and leave thy business and thy care; No mortal interest can be worth thy stay. Dryden. Embrace the hero and his stay implore. Waller.

nto the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging. "The lurking serpent's mortal sting." Shak.

ss To rue upon her wifely steadfastness. Chaucer. This must be done, and I would fain see Mortal so sturdy as to gainsay. Hudibras. A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety with less reluctance than he took the first steps. Atterbury.

tile web Arachne can not spin. Spenser. I do distinguish plain Each subtile line of her immortal face. Sir J. Davies.

of a given age has of surviving another of a giving age; thus, by the Carlisle tables of mortality the chances of survivorship for two persons, aged 25 and 65, are 89 and 11 respectively, or about 8 to 1 that the elder die first.

To soften to the eye; to make delicate. Correggio has made his memory immortal by the strength he has given to his figures, and by sweetening his lights and shadows, and melting them into each other. Dryden.

Earthy; terrestrial. God set before him a mortal and immortal life, a nature celestial and terrene. Sir W. Raleigh. Be true and faithful to the king and his heirs, and truth and faith to bear of life and limb, and terrene honor. O. Eng. Oath of Allegiance, quoted by Blackstone. Common conceptions of the matters which l…

nt of philosophy which treats of the being, perfections, and government of God, and the immortality of the soul. Krauth-Fleming.

The present life; existence in this world as contrasted with immortal life; definite, as contrasted with infinite, duration. Till time and sin together cease. Keble.

s wherein they have transgressed against thee. I Kings viii. 50. What rests, but that the mortal sentence pass On his transgression, death denounced that day Milton. The transgression is in the stealer. Shak.

The passing of the soul at death into another mortal body; metempsychosis.

r the purpose of ascertaining what can be done or effected. [I] defy thee to the trial of mortal fight. Milton.