OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 12024

mortal

/ˈmɔː.təl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
mortal
Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
deletéreo • exicial • mortal • mortífero
Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
Blyndfold he was; and in his cruell fist A mortall bow and arrowes keene did hold […]
into the plain Disgorged at length, the dead and the alive, In one dread mass, were parted, and the stain Of blood from mortal steel fell o’er the fields like rain.