mortall

Adjective

mortal (comparative more mortal, superlative most mortal)

1. Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
2. Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
   • Blyndfold he was; and in his cruell fist
     A mortall bow and arrowes keene did hold […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   fatal, lethal, baneful

3. Punishable by death.
4. Fatally vulnerable.
   • Last of all, against himself he turns his sword, but missing the mortal place, with his poniard finishes the work.1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC
5. Of or relating to the time of death.
   • Safe in the hand of one disposing Power,
     Or in the natal or the mortal hour.1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC
6. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly; related to a life-and-death struggle.
   • mortal enemy

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