Mortality
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1):
(n.) Death; destruction.
(2):
(n.) Human life; the life of a mortal being.
(3):
(n.) 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.
(4):
(n.) Those who are, or that which is, mortal; the human cace; humanity; human nature.
(5):
(n.) The condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying.
King James Dictionary [2]
MORTAL'ITY, n. L. mortalitas. Subjection to death or the necessity of dying.
When I saw her die,
I then did think on your mortality.
1. Death.
Gladly would I meet
Mortality, my sentence.
2. Frequency of death actual death of great numbers of men or beasts as a time of great mortality. 3. Human nature.
Take these tears, mortality's relief.
4. Power of destruction.
Mortality and mercy in Vienna,
Live in thy tongue and heart.
Charles Buck Theological Dictionary [3]
Subjection to death. It is a term also used to signify a contagious disease which destroys great numbers of either men or beasts. Bills of Mortality are accounts or registers specifying the numbers born, married, and buried, in any parish, town, or district. In general, they contain only these numbers, and even when thus limited are of great use, by showing the degrees of healthiness and prolifickness, and the progress of population in the place where they are kept.
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology [4]
See Mortality Death
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [5]
subjection to death, is a term not only thus used, but signifies also a contagious disease which destroys great numbers of either men or beasts. Bills of mortality are accounts or registers specifying the numbers born, married, and buried in any parish, town, or district; and these are kept in Great Britain generally, and its colonial possessions. In general, they contain only these numbers; and even when thus limited are of great use, by showing the degrees of healthiness and prolificness and the progress of population in the place where they are kept. They should become common also in this country, the clergy keeping really the only trustworthy account of a town's people.
