Definition of Everlesting
Ever*last"ing (?) a. 1.
Lasting or enduring forever; exsisting or continuing without
end; immortal; eternal. "The Everlasting God." Gen.
xx1. 33.
2. Continuing indefinitely, or during a long
period; perpetual; sometimes used, colloquially, as a strong
intensive; as, this everlasting nonsence.
I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee . . .
the land of Canaan, for an everlasting
possession. Gen xvii. 8.
And heard thy everlasting yawn confess
The pains and penalties of idleness. Pope.
Syn. -- Eternal; immortal, interminable; endless; never-
ending; infinite; unceasing; uninterrupted; continual; unintermitted;
incessant. -- Everlasting, Eternal. Eternal
denotes (when taken strictly) without beginning or end of duration;
everlasting is sometimes used in our version of the Scriptures
in the sense of eternal, but in modern usage is confined to
the future, and implies no intermission as well as no end.
Whether we shall meet again I know not;
Therefore our everlasting farewell take;
Forever, and forever farewell, Cassius. Shak.
Everlasting flower. Sane as
Everlasting, n., 3. --
Everlasting pea, an ornamental plant
(Lathyrus latifolius) related to the pea; -- so called because
it is perennial.
Ev`er*last"ing, n. 1.
Eternal duration, past or future; eternity.
From everlasting to everlasting, thou
art God. Ps. xc. 2.
2. (With the definite article) The Eternal
Being; God.
3. (Bot.) A plant whose flowers may be
dried without losing their form or color, as the pearly
everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea), the immortelle of
the French, the cudweeds, etc.
4. A cloth fabric for shoes, etc. See
Lasting.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
EVERLASTING, adj. Lasting forever. It is with no small diffidence
that I venture to offer this brief and elementary definition, for I am
not unaware of the existence of a bulky volume by a sometime Bishop of
Worcester, entitled, A Partial Definition of the Word "Everlasting,"
as Used in the Authorized Version of the Holy Scriptures. His book
was once esteemed of great authority in the Anglican Church, and is
still, I understand, studied with pleasure to the mind and profit of
the soul.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- Lasting or enduring forever; exsisting or continuing without end; immoral; eternal. "The Everlasting God." Gen. xx1. 33.
- Continuing indefinitely, or during a long period; perpetual; sometimes used, colloquially, as a strong intensive; as, this everlasting nonsence.
I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee . . . the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. Gen xvii. 8.
And heard thy everlasting yawn confess The pains and penalties of idleness. -Pope.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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