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[French sempiternel, from Lat. sempiternus, from semper = always; Sp. & Port. sempiterno; Ital. sempiternale, sempiterno.] 1. Of never-ending duration; everlasting, endle ; having beginning, but no end. "All truth is from the sempiternal source." Cowper: Task , ii. 499. 2. Eternal, everlasting; without beginning or end. *sem-pi-terne, a. [Lat. sempiternus.] Sempi. ternal; everlasting. "And his beinge is sempiterne ."-Gower: C. A. , vii. *sěm-pi-ter-ni-ty, s. [Fr. sempiternité , from Lat. sempiternitatem , acc us. of sempiternitas , from sempiternus=sempiternal (q.v.).] Future duration without end; eternity. sem-pi-tër-nize, v. t. [SEMPITERNE.] To per petuate. "The sempiternizing of the human race." -Urquhart : Rabelais , bk. iii., ch. viii. sěm-prê, adv . [Ital., from Lat.semper =always.] Music: Ever, always, throughout. Used in conjunction with some other mark of time or expre ion, to signify that such mark is to remain in force until a new direction appears.