eviternal

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin eviternus, aeternus, aeviternitas (“eviternity”) + -al. See eternal.

Adjective

eviternal (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) eternal; everlasting
   • (Can we date this quote by Joseph Hall and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?), Christ. Moderation.

     What is the heaven itself, but (as Gerson compares it well) as a great clock regularly moving in an equall sway of all the orbs, without difference of poyse, without variation of minutes, in a constant state of eviternall evennesse, both of being and motion.

Related terms

• aeviternal
• eviternally

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “eviternal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• intervale, vertaline