eterminablet (eterminabl)

[L. epriv. + E. terminable. Cf. interminable.] With out end; interminable. Skelton. IMG:content-0749.png:[blocks in formation] eternne The sea Sighed further off eternally , As human sorrow sighs in sleep. D. G. Ro etti, Ave. The state or eternalne (ē-tér'nal-nes), n. quality of being eternal. eterne. See etern. eternifyt (e-ter'ni-fi), t. t. [L. ætern us, eternal, + -ficare, make: see- fy.] To make eternal or everlasting; eternize. True Fame, the trumpeter of heau'n, that doth desire inflame To glorious deeds, and by her power eternifies the name. Mir. for Mags., p. 559. This said, her winged shoes to her feet she tied, Formed all of gold, and all eternified . Chapman . eternisation, eternise. See eternization, etereternisht (e-ter'nish), v. t. [ make eternal or immortal. If this order had not bene in our predece ors, had neuer bene eternished for wise men. Eternal generation, in theol., the communication of the divine e ence from God the Father to God the Son. The Catholic, orthodox, or Trinitarian doctrine is that God the Son, being truly God equally with God the Father, is existent from all eternity to all eternity, and that accordingly God has always existed as Father and as Son, so that nize. the divine act of generation is itself eternal, that is, never had a beginning and can never have an end. This doctrine is opposed to the Arian teaching that "there was [a time] when he [the Son] was not," and that "before being begotten he was not." As involving paternity and filiation, the act by which the Son proceeds from the Father is distinctively called begetting or generation, while that by which the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Father (according to John xv. 26 and the terminology of the Eastern Church), or from the Father and the Son (in the language of Western theology), is called proce ion simply, or distinctively spiration.=Syn. Eternal, Everlasting. Immortal, Per petual; interminable, perennial, imperishable. Eternal primarily means without beginning or end, but secondarily without end; everlasting properly means lasting from the present to an endle future. Both eternal and ever lasting are peculiarly a ociated with the divine being or function. Immortal applies to that which cannot or will not die: " immortal tal hate," Milton, P. L., i. 104; "mar ried to immortal verse," Milton, L'Allegro, 1. 137. It is sometimes applied to God (1 Tim. i. 17). Perpetual points to the future, and applies especially to that which is es- tablished: as, a perpetual covenant, desolation, feud. It is freely applied to anything that lasts indefinitely. All the four words are often used by hyperbole for that which has long duration. See ince ant. What can it then avail, though yet we feel Strength und i minish'd, or eternal being, To undergo eternal punishment? Milton, P. L., i. 155. Those summer seas, quiet as lakes, and basking in ever- De Quincey , Homer, i. eterne = Sp. Pg. It. eterno , ætern us , everlasting, eternal, contr. of * æviternus , (with suffix- turn us ) ævum , older ævom , an age, eter- nity, = Gr. αἰών (*αικών), an age (> œon , con ): see age , ayl , con.] I. a. Eternal; perpetual; everlasting. [Obsolete or archaic.] Now be welle ware that thou have not misdrawe Hire tendir zougthe fro God that is eterne. Lydgate , MS. Soc. Ant., 134, fol. 6. ( Hall i well .) But in them nature's copy 's not eterne . Shak., Macbeth, iii. 2. O thou Eterne by whom all beings move! W. Browne, Britannia's Pastorals, i. 4. A library. full of what Lamb calls "Great Nature's Stereotypes," the eterne copies that never can grow stale or unproductive. J. T. Fields, Underbrush, p. 8. II. n. Eternity. Chaucer . [Obsolete or archaic.]