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death

n. [OE. deth, dea, AS. de; akin to OS. d, D. dood, G. tod, Icel. daui, Sw. & Dan. dd, Goth. dauus; from a verb meaning to die. See Die, v. i., and cf. Dead.]1. The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants. ()

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2. Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory. ()

The death of a language can not be exactly compared with the death of a plant. (J. Peile.)

3. Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life. ()

A death that I abhor. (Shak.)

Let me die the death of the righteous. (Num. xxiii. 10.)

4. Cause of loss of life. ()

Swiftly flies the feathered death. (Dryden.)

He caught his death the last county sessions. (Addison.)

5. Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe. ()

Death! great proprietor of all. (Young.)

And I looked, and behold a pale horse; and his name that sat on him was Death. (Rev. vi. 8.)

6. Danger of death. (2 Cor. xi. 23.)

7. Murder; murderous character. ()

Not to suffer a man of death to live. (Bacon.)

8. (Theol.) Loss of spiritual life. ()

To be carnally minded is death. (Rom. viii. 6.)

9. Anything so dreadful as to be like death. ()

It was death to them to think of entertaining such doctrines. (Atterbury.)

And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death. (Judg. xvi. 16.)

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Black death. See Black death, in the Vocabulary. -- Civil death, the separation of a man from civil society, or the debarring him from the enjoyment of civil rights, as by banishment, attainder, abjuration of the realm, entering a monastery, etc. Blackstone. -- Death adder. (Zol.) (a) A kind of viper found in South Africa (Acanthophis tortor); -- so called from the virulence of its venom. (b) A venomous Australian snake of the family Elapid, of several species, as the Hoplocephalus superbus and Acanthopis antarctica. -- Death bell, a bell that announces a death. [1913 Webster] The death bell thrice was heard to ring. Mickle. -- Death candle, a light like that of a candle, viewed by the superstitious as presaging death. -- Death damp, a cold sweat at the coming on of death. -- Death fire, a kind of ignis fatuus supposed to forebode death. [1913 Webster] And round about in reel and rout, The death fires danced at night. Coleridge. -- Death grapple, a grapple or struggle for life. -- Death in life, a condition but little removed from death; a living death. [Poetic] Lay lingering out a five years' death in life. Tennyson. -- Death rate, the relation or ratio of the number of deaths to the population. [1913 Webster] At all ages the death rate is higher in towns than in rural districts. Darwin. -- Death rattle, a rattling or gurgling in the throat of a dying person. -- Death's door, the boundary of life; the partition dividing life from death. -- Death stroke, a stroke causing death. -- Death throe, the spasm of death. -- Death token, the signal of approaching death. -- Death warrant. (a) (Law) An order from the proper authority for the execution of a criminal. (b) That which puts an end to expectation, hope, or joy. -- Death wound. (a) A fatal wound or injury. (b) (Naut.) The springing of a fatal leak. -- Spiritual death (Scripture), the corruption and perversion of the soul by sin, with the loss of the favor of God. -- The gates of death, the grave. [1913 Webster] Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? Job xxxviii. 17. -- The second death, condemnation to eternal separation from God. Rev. ii. 11. -- To be the death of, to be the cause of death to; to make die. It was one who should be the death of both his parents. Milton. ()

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