Shak.
2. Connected with, or pertaining to immortality.
I have immortal longings in me.
Shak.
3. Destined to live in all ages of this world; abiding; exempt from oblivion; imperishable; as, immortal fame.
One of the few, immortal names, That were not born to die.
Halleck.
4. Great; excessive; grievous. [Obs.] Hayward.
Immortal flowers, immortelles; everlastings.
Syn. -- Eternal; everlasting; never-ending; ceaseless; perpetual; continual; enduring; endless; imperishable; incorruptible; deathless; undying.
Im*mor"tal (?), n. One who will never cease to be; one exempt from death, decay, or annihilation. Bunyan.
Im*mor"tal*ist, n. One who holds the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. [R.] Jer. Taylor.
Im`mor*tal"i*ty (?), n.; pl. Immortalities (#). [L. immortalitas: cf. F. immortalité.] 1. The quality or state 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.
2. Exemption from oblivion; perpetuity; as, the immortality of fame.
Im*mor`tal*i*za"tion (?), n. The act of immortalizing, or state of being immortalized.
Im*mor"tal*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Immortalized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Immortalizing (?).] [Cf. F. immortaliser.] 1. To render immortal; to cause to live or exist forever. S. Clarke.
2. To exempt from oblivion; to perpetuate in fame.
Alexander had no Homer to immortalize his guilty name.
T. Dawes.
Im*mor"tal*ize, v. i. To become immortal. [R.]
Im*mor"tal*ly, adv. In an immortal manner.
Im`mor*telle" (?), n.; pl. Immortelles (#). [F. See Immortal.] (Bot.) A plant with a conspicuous, dry, unwithering involucre, as the species of Antennaria, Helichrysum, Gomphrena, etc. See Everlasting.
Im*mor`ti*fi*ca"tion (?), n. Failure to mortify the passions. [R.] Jer. Taylor.
Im*mov"a*bil"i*ty (?), n. The quality or state of being immovable; fixedness; steadfastness; as, immovability of a heavy body; immovability of purpose.
Im*mov"a*ble (?), a. 1. Incapable of being moved; firmly fixed; fast; -- used of material things; as, an immovable foundation.
Immovable, infixed, and frozen round.
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