mortality

Definitions

1. 1.Human life; the life of a mortal being. From this instant There 's nothing serious in mortality. Shak.
2. 2.Those who are, or that which is, mortal; the human cace; humanity; human nature. Take these tears, mortality's relief. Pope.
3. 3.Death; destruction. Shak.
4. 4.The whole sum or number of deaths in a given time or a given community; also, the proportion of deaths to population, or to a specific number of the population; death rate; as, a time of great, or low, mortality; the mortality among the settlers was alarming. Bill of mortality. See under Bill. -- Law of mortality, a mathematical relation between the numbers living at different ages, so that from a given large number of persons alive at one age, it can be computed what number are likely to survive a given number of years. -- Table of mortality, a table exhibiting the average relative number of persons who survive, or who have died, at the end of each year of life, out of a given number supposed to have been born at the same time.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is human life; the life of a mortal being. From this instant There 's nothing serious in mortality. Shak called?
• What is those who are, or that which is, mortal; the human cace; humanity; human nature. Take these tears, mortality's relief. Pope called?