Eternal, adj. everlasting, endless: Ven. 951. Lucr. 345. Sonn. 13, 12. 18, 9. 18, 9 38, 12. 64, 4. 108, 9. Compl. 238. Wiv. II, 1, 50. Wiv. II, 1, 50 LLL I, 1, 158. All's II, 3, 246. III, 2, 24. Tw. V, 159. John III, 4, 18. H5 IV, 5, 10. H6A V, 3, 48. H6B I, 4, 28. III, 2, 263. III, 3, 19. H6C III, 3, 124.* R3 I, 3, 269. V, 3, 62. H8 IV, 2, 90. Troil. V, 2, 166. Tit. I, 155. Tit. I, 155 II, 4, 15. III, 1, 21. Rom. IV, 5, 70. Mcb. III, 1, 68. IV, 1, 105. Hml. I, 5, 21 (this e. blazon == this account of things e., of eternity). Oth. III, 3, 361. Ant. V, 1, 66 (her life in Rome would be e. in our triumph == would be for ever recorded as the most glorious trophy of our triumph).
Used to express extreme abhorrence: “would have brooked the e. devil to keep his state in Rome,” Caes. I, 2, 160.* “O proud death, what feast is toward in thine e. cell,” Hml. V, 2, 376. “some e. villain,” Oth. IV, 2, 130.
Adverbially: “to be boy e.” Wint. I, 2, 65.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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