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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Mortal \Mor"tal\, a. [F. mortel, L. mortalis, from mors, mortis,
     death, fr. moriri 8die; akin to E. murder. See Murder, and
     cf. Filemot, Mere a lake, Mortgage.]
     1. Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Destructive to life; causing or occasioning death;
        terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly;
        as, a mortal wound; a mortal sin.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. Fatally vulnerable; vital.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Last of all, against himself he turns his sword, but
              missing the mortal place, with his poniard finishes
              the work.                             --Milton.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     4. Of or pertaining to the time of death.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Safe in the hand of one disposing Power,
              Or in the natal or the mortal hour.   --Pope.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     5. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              The nymph grew pale, and in a mortal fright.
                                                    --Dryden.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     6. Human; belonging to man, who is mortal; as, mortal wit or
        knowledge; mortal power.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              The voice of God
              To mortal ear is dreadful.            --Milton.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     7. Very painful or tedious; wearisome; as, a sermon lasting
        two mortal hours. [Colloq.] --Sir W. Scott.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Mortal foe, Mortal enemy, an inveterate, desperate, or
        implacable enemy; a foe bent on one's destruction.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Mortal \Mor"tal\, n.
     A being subject to death; a human being; man. ``Warn poor
     mortals left behind.'' --Tickell.
     [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Mortal \Mor"tal\, a. [F. mortel, L. mortalis, from mors, mortis,
     death, fr. moriri 8die; akin to E. murder. See Murder, and
     cf. Filemot, Mere a lake, Mortgage.]
     1. Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.
  
     2. Destructive to life; causing or occasioning death;
        terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly;
        as, a mortal wound; a mortal sin.
  
     3. Fatally vulnerable; vital.
  
              Last of all, against himself he turns his sword, but
              missing the mortal place, with his poniard finishes
              the work.                             --Milton.
  
     4. Of or pertaining to the time of death.
  
              Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the
              natal or the mortal hour.             --Pope.
  
     5. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
  
              The nymph grew pale, and in a mortal fright.
                                                    --Dryden.
  
     6. Human; belonging to man, who is mortal; as, mortal wit or
        knowledge; mortal power.
  
              The voice of God To mortal ear is dreadful.
                                                    --Milton.
  
     7. Very painful or tedious; wearisome; as, a sermon lasting
        two mortal hours. [Colloq.] --Sir W. Scott.
  
     Mortal foe, Mortal enemy, an inveterate, desperate, or
        implacable enemy; a foe bent on one's destruction.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Mortal \Mor"tal\, n.
     A being subject to death; a human being; man. ``Warn poor
     mortals left behind.'' --Tickell.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Sin \Sin\, n. [OE. sinne, AS. synn, syn; akin to D. zonde, OS.
     sundia, OHG. sunta, G. s["u]nde, Icel., Dan. & Sw. synd, L.
     sons, sontis, guilty, perhaps originally from the p. pr. of
     the verb signifying, to be, and meaning, the one who it is.
     Cf. Authentic, Sooth.]
     1. Transgression of the law of God; disobedience of the
        divine command; any violation of God's will, either in
        purpose or conduct; moral deficiency in the character;
        iniquity; as, sins of omission and sins of commission.
  
              Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
                                                    --John viii.
                                                    34.
  
              Sin is the transgression of the law.  --1 John iii.
                                                    4.
  
              I think 't no sin. To cozen him that would unjustly
              win.                                  --Shak.
  
              Enthralled By sin to foul, exorbitant desires.
                                                    --Milton.
  
     2. An offense, in general; a violation of propriety; a
        misdemeanor; as, a sin against good manners.
  
              I grant that poetry's a crying sin.   --Pope.
  
     3. A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
  
              He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin.
                                                    --2 Cor. v.
                                                    21.
  
     4. An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person. [R.]
  
              Thy ambition, Thou scarlet sin, robbed this
              bewailing land Of noble Buckingham.   --Shak.
  
     Note: Sin is used in the formation of some compound words of
           obvious signification; as, sin-born; sin-bred,
           sin-oppressed, sin-polluted, and the like.
  
     Actual sin,
  
     Canonical sins,
  
     Original sin,
  
     Venial sin. See under Actual, Canonical, etc.
  
     Deadly, or
  
     Mortal,
  
     sins (R. C. Ch.), willful and deliberate transgressions,
        which take away divine grace; -- in distinction from
        vental sins. The seven deadly sins are pride,
        covetousness, lust, wrath, gluttony, envy, and sloth.
  
     Sin eater, a man who (according to a former practice in
        England) for a small gratuity ate a piece of bread laid on
        the chest of a dead person, whereby he was supposed to
        have taken the sins of the dead person upon himself.
  
     Sin offering, a sacrifice for sin; something offered as an
        expiation for sin.
  
     Syn: Iniquity; wickedness; wrong. See Crime.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  mortal
       adj 1: subject to death; "mortal beings" [ant: immortal]
       2: involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death; "the
          seven deadly sins" [syn: deadly, mortal(a)]
       3: unrelenting and deadly; "mortal enemy" [syn: mortal(a)]
       4: causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a
          deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness" [syn: deadly,
           deathly]
       n : a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
           [syn: person, individual, someone, somebody, human,
            soul]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  mortal
     Αγγλικά a.
     1 θνητός
     2 θανάσιμος (πολύ σοβαρός)
     Αγγλικά n.
     ο θνητός

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  mortal
     Asturian a.
     1 (l en mortal) (gloss: susceptible to death)
     2 (l en mortal) (gloss: causing death; deadly; fatal; killing)
     3 (l en deadly) (gloss: lethal)
     Catalan a.
     1 (l en mortal)
     2 deadly, lethal
     Catalan n.
     (l en mortal)
     Interlingua a.
     1 (l en mortal) (gloss: liable to die)
     2 (l en mortal) (gloss: causing death)
     Piedmontese a.
     1 (l en mortal)
     2 deadly, lethal
     Romanian a.
     (l en mortal), deadly

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  mortal
     a.
     1 Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not
  immortal. (from 14th c.)
     2 Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds,
  injuries etc.). (from 14th c.)
     3 (1: punishable) by death.
     4 (1: fatally) vulnerable.
     5 Of or relating to the time of death.
     6 (1: affecting) as if with power to kill; deathly.
     7 (1: human); belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal.
     adv.
     (lb en colloquial) mortally; enough to cause death.
     n.
     A human; someone susceptible to death.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  mortal
     Catalan a.
     1 (l en mortal)
     2 deadly, lethal
     Catalan n.
     (l en mortal)
     Galician a.
     1 (lb gl not comparable) susceptible to death; (l en mortal).
     2 (lb gl comparable) prone to cause death; deadly; lethal; fatal.
     Galician n.
     1 a (l en mortal), a human (gloss: someone susceptible to death)
     2 (lb gl gymnastics) a somersault
     Portuguese a.
     1 (lb pt not comparable) susceptible to death; (l en mortal)
     2 (lb pt comparable) prone to cause death; deadly; lethal; fatal
     Portuguese n.
     1 a (l en mortal), a human (gloss: someone susceptible to death)
     2 (lb pt gymnastics) a somersault
     Spanish a.
     1 deadly
     2 (l en mortal)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  mortal
     Catalan a.
     1 (l en mortal)
     2 deadly, lethal
     Catalan n.
     (l en mortal)
     Galician a.
     1 (lb gl not comparable) susceptible to death; (l en mortal).
     2 (lb gl comparable) prone to cause death; deadly; lethal; fatal.
     Galician n.
     1 a (l en mortal), a human (gloss: someone susceptible to death)
     2 (lb gl gymnastics) a somersault
     Italian n.
     (apocopic form of it mortale)
     Spanish a.
     1 deadly
     2 (l en mortal)

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  mortal
     Espanja a.
     1 kuolevainen
     2 kuolettava

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  mortal
     Engelska a.
     dödlig
     Engelska n.
     dödlig varelse, människa

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Mortal /mˈɔːtəl/
  الإنسان

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  mortal //ˈmɔɹtəl// //ˈmɔːtəl// 
  1. смъртоносен
  causing death; deadly; fatal; killing
  2. смъртен
  susceptible to death

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  mortal //ˈmɔɹtəl// //ˈmɔːtəl// 
  простосмъртен, смъртен
  human; someone susceptible to death

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  mortal /mˈɔːtəl/ 
  smrtelný

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  mortal /mˈɔːtəl/ 
  smrtelně nebezpečný

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  mortal /mˈɔːtəl/ 
  smrtelný

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  mortal /mˈɔːtəl/ 
  smrtelník

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  mortal /mˈɔːtəl/
  Sterbliche , Sterblicher
   see: mortals
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  mortal /mˈɔːtəl/
  sterblich 
   see: mortal being
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  mortal /mˈɔːtəl/
  todlangweilig, endlos lang 

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  mortal /mˈɔːtəl/
  tödlich, todbringend, zum Tod führend 
   see: mortal wound
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  mortal /mˈɔːtəl/ 
  auf Leben und Tod
        "be locked in mortal combat"  - auf Leben und Tod miteinander kämpfen

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  mortal /mˈɔːtəl/
  
  θανάσιμος, θνητός

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  mortal //ˈmɔɹtəl// //ˈmɔːtəl// 
  1. tappava, kuolevainen
  causing death; deadly; fatal; killing
  2. kuolevainen
  susceptible to death

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  mortal /mˈɔːtəl/ 
  1. मर्त्य, मरणशील
        "All the living beings on earth are mortal."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  mortal /mˈɔːtəl/
  smrtan, smrtnik, smrtonosan, snažan, strašno dosadan, užasan, čovjek

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  mortal /mˈɔːtəl/
  1. ember
  2. halandó
  3. halállal kapcsolatos
  4. halálosan unalmas
  5. halálos
  6. végzetes
  7. halál-
  8. igen nagy

From English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-jpn ]

  mortal //ˈmɔɹtəl// //ˈmɔːtəl// 
  1. 不倶戴天
  affecting as if with power to kill
  2. 命取り, 必殺, 致死
  causing death; deadly; fatal; killing
  3. 必滅, 死すべき
  susceptible to death

From English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-jpn ]

  mortal //ˈmɔɹtəl// //ˈmɔːtəl// 
  人間
  human; someone susceptible to death

From English-Dutch FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-nld ]

  mortal /mɔːtl/
  sterfelijk

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  mortal /ˈmɔ:təl/
  I.    śmiertelny
  II.    śmiertelnik

From English-Portuguese FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-por ]

  mortal /mɔːtl/
  mortal

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  mortal //ˈmɔɹtəl// //ˈmɔːtəl// 
  dödlig 2.
  susceptible to death
   3.
  causing death; deadly; fatal; killing

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  mortal /mˈɔːtəl/
  1. ölümlü, geçici, fani
  2. insani, beşeri
  3. öldürücü, amansız
  4. ölümcül
  5. (k. dili) çok büyük
  6. (k. dili) uzun ve sıkıcı
  7. (k. dili) olası
  8. insan, insanoğlu, beşer, ölümlü yaratık. mortal enemies birbirinin can düşmanı. mortal remains cenaze, ceset. in mortal terror dehşet içinde. mortality  ölümlülük, fanilik
  9. büyük ölçüde can kaybı
  10. ölüm oranı
  11. insanlık, insanoğlu. mortally  öldürecek veya ölecek surette
  12. dehşetli surette
  13. pek çok.

From Lenga d'òc - Català FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:oci-cat ]

  mortal
  mortal

From Lenga d'òc - Català FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:oci-cat ]

  mortal
  mortal

From Lenga d'òc - Català FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:oci-cat ]

  mortal
  mortal

From Lenga d'òc - Català FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:oci-cat ]

  mortal
  mortal

From Lenga d'òc - Català FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:oci-cat ]

  mortal
  mortal

From Portuguese-German FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:por-deu ]

  mortal /mˈoxʊ/
  sterblich

From Portuguese-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:por-eng ]

  mortal /moxˈer/
  1. dead
  2. mortal

From português-français FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:por-fra ]

  mortal /muɾətˈɑl/ 
  mortel, fatal

From português-español FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:por-spa ]

  mortal /muɾətˈɑl/ 
  mortal

From Spanish - Asturian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:spa-ast ]

  mortal /moɾtˈal/
  mortal

From Spanish - Asturian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:spa-ast ]

  mortal /moɾtˈal/
  mortal

From Spanish - Asturian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:spa-ast ]

  mortal /moɾtˈal/
  mortal  

From Spanish-German FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1 :   [ freedict:spa-deu ]

  mortal /moɾtˈal/ 
  tödlich

From Spanish-German FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1 :   [ freedict:spa-deu ]

  mortal /moɾtˈal/ 
  sterblich

From Spanish-German FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1 :   [ freedict:spa-deu ]

  mortal, | mortal /moɾtˈal/ /moɾtˈal/ 
  Sterbliche, | Sterbliche 

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈmɔɹtəɫ/

From IPA:es_ES :   [ IPA:es_ES ]

  

/moɾtal/

From IPA:es_MX :   [ IPA:es_MX ]

  

/moɾtal/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  149 Moby Thesaurus words for "mortal":
     Adamite, Adamitic, abject, anthropocentric, anthropological, awful,
     baneful, being, bitter, bodily, body, brittle, brutal, capricious,
     cat, changeable, chap, character, conceivable, corporal, corporeal,
     corruptible, cracking, creature, customer, deadly, death-bringing,
     deathful, deathly, deciduous, destructive, dire, disastrous, duck,
     dying, earthling, earthly, earthy, enormous, ephemeral, evanescent,
     extreme, fading, fantastic, fatal, fellow, feral, fickle, finite,
     fleeting, fleshly, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail,
     fugacious, fugitive, great, groundling, guy, hand, head, hominal,
     homo, homocentric, human, human being, humanistic, impermanent,
     impetuous, implacable, impulsive, inconstant, individual,
     inordinate, insubstantial, intense, internecine, joker, killing,
     lethal, life, likely, living soul, malign, malignant, man,
     man-centered, massive, merciless, momentary, monumental, mutable,
     nondurable, nonpermanent, nose, one, only human, party, passing,
     perishable, pernicious, person, personage, personality, pestilent,
     pestilential, physical, possible, prodigious, relentless, ruthless,
     savage, short-lived, single, somebody, someone, soul, stupendous,
     subject to death, sworn, tellurian, temporal, temporary, terminal,
     terran, terrible, towering, transient, transitive, transitory,
     tremendous, unangelic, unappeasable, unceasing, undurable,
     unenduring, unflinching, unrelenting, unremitting, unstable,
     unyielding, virulent, volatile, weak, woman, worldling, worldly
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  n. 凡人,人类;
  a. 不免一死的,人类的,临终的;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     n. 凡人,人类
     a. 不免一死的,人类的,临终的

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