Definition of death

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Death (v. i.) The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants..

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Grave :: Grave (n.) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction..
Crucifixion :: Crucifixion (n.) The state of one who is nailed or fastened to a cross; death upon a cross.
Commute :: Commute (v. t.) To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an aggregate; hence, to lessen; to diminish; as, to commute a sentence of death to one of imprisonment for life; to commute tithes; to commute charges for fares..
Mortally :: Mortally (adv.) In a mortal manner; so as to cause death; as, mortally wounded..
Commutation :: Commutation (n.) The change of a penalty or punishment by the pardoning power of the State; as, the commutation of a sentence of death to banishment or imprisonment..
Mortiferous :: Mortiferous (a.) Bringing or producing death; deadly; destructive; as, a mortiferous herb..
Mortality :: Mortality (n.) Death; destruction.
Death :: Death (v. i.) Anything so dreadful as to be like death.
Re-demption :: Re-demption (n.) The procuring of God's favor by the sufferings and death of Christ; the ransom or deliverance of sinners from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law.
Commonwealth :: Commonwealth (n.) Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659..
Reversion :: Reversion (n.) A payment which is not to be received, or a benefit which does not begin, until the happening of some event, as the death of a living person..
Deathwatch :: Deathwatch (n.) A small beetle (Anobium tessellatum and other allied species). By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death..
Thirdings :: Thirdings (n. pl.) The third part of the corn or grain growing on the ground at the tenant's death, due to the lord for a heriot, as within the manor of Turfat in Herefordshire..
Besayle :: Besayle (n.) A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished..
''sdeath :: 'Sdeath (interj.) An exclamation expressive of impatience or anger.
Deathwatch :: Deathwatch (n.) A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidae, which makes a similar but fainter sound; -- called also deathtick..
Agony :: Agony (n.) The last struggle of life; death struggle.
Save :: Save (a.) Specifically, to deliver from sin and its penalty; to rescue from a state of condemnation and spiritual death, and bring into a state of spiritual life..
Relief :: Relief (n.) A fine or composition which the heir of a deceased tenant paid to the lord for the privilege of taking up the estate, which, on strict feudal principles, had lapsed or fallen to the lord on the death of the tenant..
Mortal :: Mortal (a.) Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal..
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