mortal

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   subject to death

   mortal beings

2. 2
   adj

   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 […]

3. 3
   adj

   Fatally vulnerable.

   Last of all, against himself he turns his sword, but missing the mortal place, with his poniard finishes the work.

4. 4
   adj

   Of or relating to the time of death.

   Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal or the mortal hour.

5. 5
   adj

   Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly; related to a life-and-death struggle.

   mortal enemy

6. 6
   adj

   Human; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal.

   mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power

7. 7
   adj

   Very painful or tedious; wearisome.

   a sermon lasting two mortal hours

8. 8
   adj

   Very drunk.

   Thats^([sic]) nothing, says Tequila Sheila, who told how the summer she was housemaid in The Saint Columba she took this guy back to the staff flats while mortal on slammers and crashed out on him before anything could happen.

Etymology

From Middle English mortal, mortel, from Old French mortal, and their source Latin mortālis, from mors (“death”). In this sense, displaced native deadly, from Old English dēadlīċ.