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Without beginning or end of existence; always existing. The eternal God is thy refuge. Deut. xxxiii. 27. To know wether there were any real being, whose duration has been eternal. Locke.

One who holds the existence of matter to be from eternity. T. Burnet.

To make eternal. Shelton.

In an eternal manner. That which is morally good or evil at any time or in any case, must be also eternally and unchangeably so. South. Where western gales eternally reside. Addison.

Equally eternal. -- Co`e*ter"nal*ly, adv. Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam. Milton.

Concealed or hidden out of the way. [Obs.] The eternal eye whose sight discerns Abstrusest thoughts. Milton.

Eternal; everlasting. "Æonian hills." Tennyson.

One who believes that eternal punishment consists in annihilation or extinction of being; a destructionist.

a buzz, soon got a sting in the king's head, and he violently apprehended it. Fuller. The eternal laws, such as the heroic age apprehended them. Gladstone.

To maintain; to defend. [Obs. or Archaic] That . . . I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. Milton. I will assert it from the scandal. Jer. Taylor.

first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator. Eternal King; thee, Author of all being. Milton.

ly; for an indefinite time. For his mercies aye endure. Milton. For aye, always; forever; eternally.

e said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general. On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be field. Spenser. It is quite startling, on going over the beadroll of English worthies, to find how few are directly represented in the male line. Quart. Rev.

upon principle. Atterbury. Those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state]. South.

ions . . . distinguish between the things seen and temporal and those that are unseen and eternal. I. Taylor.

e same essence. -- Co`es*sen"tial*ly, adv. We bless and magnify that coessential Spirit, eternally proceeding from both [The Father and the Son]. Hooker.

Existence from eternity equally with another eternal being; equal eternity.

th which . . . chooses the most flagrant act of murderous regicide treason for a feast of eternal commemoration. Burke.

azel] denied the possibility of a known connection between cause and effect. Whewell. The eternal and inserable connection between virtue and hapiness. Atterbury.

itting to another person, place, or state. [Obs.] So is despair a certain consignation to eternal ruin. Jer. Taylor.