|
immortal
has definitions from the field of religion
|
|
| 1 |
[ adjective ] not subject to death
Used in print (Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)He does not mean to say that Adam lost the similitude of God and his immortality through the fall ; for he was created not exactly immortal , nor yet exactly mortal , but capable of immortality as_well_as of mortality . And He laid_down for him certain conditions : so_that , if he kept the command of God , then he would always remain as he was , that_is , immortal ; but if he did not , he would become mortal , melting into earth , whence his frame had been taken '' . `` Wherefore also He [ God ] drove him [ man ] out of Paradise , and removed him far from the tree of life , not because He envied him the tree of life , as some venture to assert , but because He pitied him , [ and did not desire ] that he should continue a sinner for ever , nor that the sin which surrounded him should be immortal , and evil interminable and irremediable . (Leo Lemon, "Catch Up With" and "Something to...)The Albany_Civic_Opera 's presentation of Spumoni 's immortal Il_Sevigli_del_Spegititgninino , with guest contralto Hattie_Sforzt . Related terms mortal everlasting deathless amaranthine deific infinite heavenly |
| 2 |
[ noun ] a person (such as an author) of enduring fame
Examples "Shakespeare is one of the immortals" Related terms |
| 3 |
[ noun ] (religion) any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force
Related terms spiritual_being saint Buddha goddess war_god Celtic_deity Egyptian_deity daemon Semitic_deity Hindu_deity Fates Morpheus Norse_deity Anglo-Saxon_deity Chinese_deity Japanese_deity Persian_deity earth-god demiurge Greco-Roman_deity Greek_deity Roman_deity Quetzalcoatl Teutonic_deity Bodhisattva Phrygian_deity demogorgon hypnos Arhat sun-god sea-god zombi pantheon |
| * |
|