ætern

English

Adjective

ætern (comparative more ætern, superlative most ætern)

1. Alternative spelling of eterne
   • 1674, Marcus Antonius Flaminius, translated by John Norton, The Scholar’s Vade Mecum, or, The Serious Student’s Solid and Silent Tutor, London: […] T. Sawbridge, pages 74–75 and 87–88:

     The ætern, ſempitern, everlaſting Spirit of Promiſs, Life, Comfort, of Feith, Truth, Holineſs, of Grace, God, and of Glorie, teſtifieth, beareth record, and ſetteth it Seal to the Truth of Thour being the alone Autor of al Salvation. […]: evn ſo I mi veri ſelf, O wretched man of men that I am, did hood-winkt, blind, blind-fold run, tumbl, ruſh throuh al manner of evils, when the briht, beuteous, fair liht of Thour bleſſed Spirit expanded it beams magnificently, ſpread forth it raies gloriouſly, ſhined reſplendently and directed, pointed, ſhewed me the vaie leading to the ætern Kingdoms of the bleſſed Cœlestial Inhabitants.

   • 1683, J[ohn] P[ordage], Theologia Mystica, or The Mystic Divinitie of the Æternal Invisibles, Viz. the Archetypous Globe, or the Original Globe, or World of All Globes, Worlds, Essences, Centers, Elements, Principles and Creations Whatsoever, London, page 101:

     […]; that of an Ætern Beeing (c) of Beeings (nothing beeing abl to make it ſelf) Reaſon exiſteth, ſubſiſteth, ſtandeth, buildeth and finiſheth, I mean concludeth, That Æternitie it ſelf is: […]

   • 1693, Michael Seigneur de Montaigne, translated by Charles Cotton, Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne. In Three Books. With Marginal Notes and Quotations of the Cited Authors., the second edition, the second volume, London: […] T. Basset, […] and M. Gilliflower, and W. Hensman, […], page 362:

     Quippe etenim mortale æterno jungere, & una / Conſentire putare, & fungi mutua poſſe, (eſt, / Deſipere est. Quid enim diverſius eſſe putandum / Aut magis inter ſe disjunctum, diſcrepitanſque, / Quam mortale quod eſt, immortali atque perenni / Junctum in concilio ſævas tolerare procellas? / To joyn the mortal then and the ætern / And think they can agree in one concern, / Is Madneſs. For what things more diff’ring are / Unlike betwixt themſelves, and fit to jarr? How can it then be thought, that theſe ſhould bear, / When thus conjoyn’d, of Storms an equal ſhare?

   • 1713, “Επωιδη. The Legend of Love”, in A Paraphrase on the Canticles, in English Rhythms, canto I, stanza LXI, page 74:

     Nay farther, and what Angels did admire, / For its Ætern Exemplar, the Moſt High, / Who with his work delighted, would retire / Frequent from Heav’n, as to divert, and view it nighe’r.