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ction to death or to the necessity of dying. When I saw her die, I then did think on your mortality. Carew.

e 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.

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

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.

The quality of being deathless; immortality.

ining a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc. Bill of adventure. See under Adventure. -- Bill of costs, a statement of the items which form the total amount of the costs of a party to a suit or action. -- Bill of credit. (a) Within the consti…

suiting one who is over strict in morals; inculcating an impracticable, severe, or gloomy mortality; as, blue laws.

ng as a symbol of death. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrios emblems of mortality. Hawthorne.

ement of life. (a) The decrease of life in a group of persons in which the assumed law of mortality is such that of a given large number of persons, all being now of the same age, an equal number shall die each consecutive year. (b) The decrease of life in a group of persons in which the assumed law of mortality is suc…

The study of races, as to births, marriages, mortality, health, etc. -- Dem`o*graph"ic, a.

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

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

in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain. We can not hold mortality's strong hand. Shak. Death! what do'st O,hold thy blow. Grashaw. He hat not sufficient judgment and self-command to hold his tongue. Macaulay.

One who holds the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

ip of a filament; as, an innate anther. Gray. Innate ideas (Metaph.), ideas, as of God, immortality, right and wrong, supposed by some to be inherent in the mind, as a priori principles of knowledge.

The quality of being lethal; mortality.

and a lugubrious look. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious emblems of mortality. Hawthorne. -- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ly, adv. -- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ness, n.

Quality of being mortal; mortality.

consumed by fire by its own act, and to rise again from its ashes. Hence, an emblem of immortality.