everlasting

5 definitions found

everlasting - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Everlasting \Ever*last"ing\a.
     1. Lasting or enduring forever; exsisting or continuing
        without end; immortal; eternal. "The Everlasting God."
        --Gen. xx1. 33.
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     2. Continuing indefinitely, or during a long period;
        perpetual; sometimes used, colloquially, as a strong
        intensive; as, this everlasting nonsence.
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              I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee . .
              . the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession.
                                                    --Gen xvii. 8.
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              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.
  
     Usage: -- 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.
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                  Whether we shall meet again I know not;
                  Therefore our everlasting farewell take;
                  Forever, and forever farewell, Cassius. --Shak.
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     Everlasting flower. Sane as Everlasting, n., 3.
  
     Everlasting pea, an ornamental plant (Lathyrus  latifolius
        ) related to the pea; -- so called because it
        is perennial.
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  Everlasting \Ev`er*last"ing\, n.
     1. Eternal duration, past or future; eternity.
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              From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. --Ps.
                                                    xc. 2.
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     2. (With the definite article) The Eternal Being; God.
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     3. (Bot.) A plant whose flowers may be dried without losing
        their form or color, as, the pearly everlasting
        (Anaphalis margaritacea), the immortelle (Xeranthemum  anuum
        ) of the French, the cudweeds, etc.
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     4. A cloth fabric for shoes, etc. See Lasting.
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everlasting - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  everlasting
      adj 1: continuing forever or indefinitely; "the ageless themes
             of love and revenge"; "eternal truths"; "life
             everlasting"; "hell's perpetual fires"; "the unending
             bliss of heaven" [syn: ageless, aeonian, eonian,
             eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unending,
             unceasing]
      2: without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative)
         intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a
         consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross
         negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding
         mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter
         nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth" [syn: arrant(a),
         complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a),
         everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a),
         sodding(a), stark(a), staring(a), thoroughgoing(a),
         utter(a), unadulterated]
      n 1: any of various plants of various genera of the family
           Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of
           form or color [syn: everlasting, everlasting flower]

everlasting - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Everlasting
  eternal, applied to God (Gen. 21:33; Deut. 33:27; Ps. 41:13;
  90:2). We also read of the "everlasting hills" (Gen. 49:26); an
  "everlasting priesthood" (Ex. 40:15; Num. 25:13). (See ETERNAL.)

everlasting - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  109 Moby Thesaurus words for "everlasting":
     ageless, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty,
     amaranthine, blah, boundless, broken-record, ceaseless, changeless,
     coeternal, constant, continual, continuous, creating, creative,
     dateless, deathless, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull,
     dusty, embalmed, endless, eternal, eternally the same, eterne,
     ever-being, ever-durable, ever-during, ever-fresh, everliving,
     fadeless, frozen, glorious, good, hallowed, harping, highest, holy,
     humdrum, immemorial, immortal, immutable, imperishable, incessant,
     incorruptible, indestructible, infinite, interminable, invariable,
     jog-trot, just, lasting, limitless, long-winded, loving, luminous,
     majestic, making, merciful, monotonous, never-ceasing, never-dying,
     never-ending, nonstop, nonterminating, nonterminous, numinous,
     olamic, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, perdurable,
     permanent, perpetual, prolix, radiant, sacred, sempiternal,
     shaping, singsong, sovereign, steady, supreme, tedious, termless,
     timeless, treadmill, ubiquitous, unbounded, unceasing, unchanging,
     undefined, undying, unending, uneventful, unfading, unintermitting,
     uninterrupted, unlimited, unremitting, unvarying, without end