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rinciples of equity jurisprudence; as, an equitable estate; equitable assets, assignment, mortgage, etc. Abbott.

A variant of Eddish. [Obs.] Mortimer.

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.

Condition which begins at death; immortality. Thou know'st 't is common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity. Shak.

The act of eternizing; the act of rendering immortal or famous.

To make forever famous; to immortalize; as, to eternize one's self, a name, exploits. St. Alban's battle won by famous York, Shall be eternized in all age to come. Shak.

The theory, held by Euhemerus, that the gods of mythology were but deified mortals, and their deeds only the amplification in imagination of human acts.

out losing their form or color, as the pearly everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea), the immortelle of the French, the cudweeds, etc.

idity to, as by signing and perhaps sealing and delivering; as, to execute a deed, lease, mortgage, will, etc.

ng; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul; immortal existence. The main object of our existence. Lubbock.

A conjurer who can raise spirits. [R.] Thou, like an exorcist, hast conjured up My mortified spirit. Shak.

A table of mortality computed from the experience of one or more life-insurance companies.

d plowed without being sowed for the season. The plowing of fallows is a benefit to land. Mortimer.

A falsifier. Bp. Morton.

e taste or caprice without much use or value. London pride is a pretty fancy for borders. Mortimer.

To practice as a farrier; to carry on the trade of a farrier. [Obs.] Mortimer.

nce as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence. Thou didst fast and weep for the child. 2 Sam. xii. 21. Fasting day, a fast day; a day of fasting.

To grow fat, plump, and fleshy. An old ox fats as well, and is as good, as a young one. Mortimer.

Causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; destructive; calamitous; as, a fatal wound; a fatal disease; a fatal day; a fatal error.

The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility. The year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality. Ser T. Browne. By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting. Eikon Basilike.