Adjective

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Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny.

*{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild

, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1 , passage=She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.}}

Foreboding]] or great [[#Noun, disaster.

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*:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.

Causing death or destruction.

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*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Philip J. Bushnell

, magazine=(American Scientist), title= Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance , passage=Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.}}

(lb) Causing a sudden end to the running of a program.

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Adjective

(en adjective)

Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.

* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), :

I was in mortal fear lest the captain should repent of his confessions and make an end of me.

Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.11:

Blyndfold he was; and in his cruell fist / A mortall bow and arrowes keene did hold […].

Fatally vulnerable; vital.

* Milton

Last of all, against himself he turns his sword, but missing the mortal place, with his poniard finishes the work.

Of or relating to the time of death.

* Alexander Pope

Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, / Or in the natal or the mortal hour.

Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.

* Dryden

The nymph grew pale, and in a mortal fright.

* mortal enemy

Human; belonging to man, who is mortal.

mortal''' wit or knowledge; '''mortal power

* Milton

The voice of God / To mortal ear is dreadful.

Very painful or tedious; wearisome.

a sermon lasting two mortal hours

(Sir Walter Scott)

(UK, slang) Very drunk; wasted; smashed.

Let's go out and get mortal !