mortal
IPA: mˈɔrtʌɫ
noun
- A human; someone susceptible to death.
adjective
- Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
- Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
- Punishable by death.
- Fatally vulnerable.
- Of or relating to the time of death.
- Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
- Human; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal.
- Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
- (Scotland, Tyneside, slang) Very drunk.
- (religion, of a sin) Causing spiritual death.
adverb
- (colloquial) Mortally; enough to cause death.
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Examples of "mortal" in Sentences
- _All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, Therefore Socrates is mortal_.
- Socrates is mortal, "is necessary if Socrates is chosen as argument, but not if _man_ or _mortal_ is chosen.
- _mortal_, from _mort_, a great quantity, is used as a particle of amplification; as _mortal tall, mortal little_.
- Plato is mortal, "will be necessary if either Socrates or _man_ is chosen as argument, but not if Plato or _mortal_ is chosen.
- Of that which we call mortal race Polycrates was the first; and he had great expectation of becoming ruler of Ionia and of the islands.
- At best, matter is only a phenomenon of mortal mind, of which evil is the highest degree; but really there is no such thing as _mortal mind_, -- though we are compelled to use the phrase in the endeavor to express the underlying thought.
- Now, that was lucky for me, because when the police investigated, they talked to two witnesses, who were also living at my house at the time, and the detectives decided that what had happened between Donald and me was what they called mortal combat.
- Cum causal regularly takes the Subjunctive; as, -- quae cum īta sint, _since this is so_; cum sīs mortālis, quae mortālia sunt, cūrā, _since you are mortal, care for what is mortal_.a. Note the phrase cum praesertim (praesertim cum), _especially since; _ as, --
- When I say _Socrates is mortal_, the moment _Socrates_ is incomplete; it falls forward through the _is_ which is pure movement, into the _mortal_ which is indeed bare mortal on the tongue, but for the mind is _that mortal_, the _mortal Socrates_, at last satisfactorily disposed of and told off. [
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