OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 5536

eternal

/ɪˈtɜː.nl̩/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
eternal • eterno • sempiterno
Lasting forever; unending.
But here again it is another question, quite different from our having an idea of eternity, to know whether there were any real being, whose duration has been eternal.
Thy smoking altar shall be fat with food / Of incense and the grateful steam of blood; / Burnt-offerings morn and evening shall be thine, / And fires eternal in thy temple shine.