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Mortal, adj. 1) subject to death, sharing the common fate of mankind: Ven. 368. Ven. 368 Lucr. 13. Lucr. 13 Sonn. 7, 7. 107, 5. Pilgr. 244 & LLL IV, 3, 120. Tp. V, 188. Meas. II, 2, 123. IV, 2, 153 (cf. Desperately). Ado I, 1, 60. LLL IV, 3, 85. V, 2, 161. Mids. II, 1, 135. III, 1, 163. As II, 4, 56. Shr. I, 1, 178. Tw. V, 254. John III, 1, 158. R2 III, 2, 161. IV, 48. H4A IV, 2, 73. H6B I, 2, 21. H6C II, 5, 29. R3 I, 2, 44. R3 I, 2, 44 R3 I, 2, 44 III, 4, 98. V, 3, 124. H8 II, 4, 228. III, 2, 148. Troil. III, 1, 34. Tit. II, 3, 103. Rom. III, 2, 82. Caes. II, 1, 66. Hml. IV, 4, 51. IV, 5, 160. Ant. V, 2, 51. Per. IV, 4, 30. V, 3, 62. “slave to m. rage,” Sonn. 64, 4 (== the rage of mortality, or of death). “put myself into my m. preparation,” All's III, 6, 81 (== prep. for death). “pay his breath to time and m. custom,” Mcb. IV, 1, 100. “this m. coil,” Hml. III, 1, 67 (== this coil of mortality, of mortal life).
Often == pertaining to mankind, human: whose tushes never sheathed he (the boar) “whetteth still, like to a m. butcher bent to kill,” Ven. 618. “must not die till mutual overthrow of m. kind,” Ven. 618 “to write above a m. pitch,” Sonn. 86, 6. “this is no m. business,” Tp. I, 2, 406. “she excels each m. thing upon the dull earth dwellling,” Gent. IV, 2, 51. “the purest treasure m. times afford is spotless reputation,” R2 I, 1, 177 (m. times == human life). “m. griefs,” H5 IV, 1, 259. “m. knowledge,” Mcb. I, 5, 3. “know all m. consequences,” V, 3, 5. “things m. move them not,” Hml. II, 2, 539. “if m. eyes do see them bolster,” Oth. III, 3, 399. “more than a m. seeming,” Cymb. I, 6, 171. “no more show thy spite on m. flies,” V, 4, 31 (i. e. men). “be not with m. accidents opprest,” V, 4, 31 Remarkable passage: “so is all nature in love m. in folly,” As II, 4, 56 (perhaps == human, resembling man in folly. Johnson: abounding in folly).
2) deadly, fatal: “now nature cares not for thy m. vigour,” Ven. 953. “his m. sting,” Lucr. 364. their m. “fault,” Lucr. 364 “at a m. war,” Sonn. 46, 1. “the m. and intestine jars,” Err. I, 1, 11. “if the living be enemy to the grief, the excess of it makes it soon m.” All's I, 1, 67 (cf. Lr. V, 3, 204: this would have seemed a period to such as love not sorrow). “even to a m. arbitrement,” Tw. III, 4, 286. “m. motion,” Tw. III, 4, 286 “this news is m. to the queen,” Wint. III, 2, 149. “m. fury,” John II, 454. “m. paw,” III, 1, 259. “it ends a m. woe,” R2 II, 1, 152. “a m. touch,” III, 2, 21. “the m. worm,” H6B III, 2, 263. “m. sting,” H6C II, 2, 15. “the m. fortune of the field,” II, 2, 83. “m. foe,” III, 3, 257. V, 1, 94. “m. poison,” R3 I, 2, 146. “m. sword,” Troil. IV, 5, 134. cf. Cor. II, 2, 115. III, 1, 297. Tit. IV, 1, 93. Rom. III, 1, 115. V, 1, 66. Mcb. I, 5, 42. III, 4, 81. IV, 3, 3. Hml IV, 7, 143. Oth. II, 1, 72. III, 3, 355. III, 4, 115. V, 2, 205. Ant. I, 2, 138. V, 1, 64. V, 2, 306. Cymb. I, 4, 44. III, 4, 18. V, 3, 51. V, 5, 50. V, 5, 50 Per. III, 2, 110. V, 1, 37.
Adverbially: “most dangerously you have with him prevailed, if not most m. to him,” Cor. V, 3, 189.
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