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.
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.
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