Death

Death (deth) , noun

[Old English deth, deae, Anglo-Saxon deáe; akin to Old Saxon dōe, Dutch dood, German tod, Icelandic dauei, Swedish & Danish dod, Gothic dauþus; from a verb meaning to die. See Die, v. i., and compare Dead.]

The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

Local death is going on at all times and in all parts of the living body, in which individual cells and elements are being cast off and replaced by new; a process essential to life. General death is of two kinds; death of the body as a whole (somatic or systemic death), and death of the tissues. By the former is implied the absolute cessation of the functions of the brain, the circulatory and the respiratory organs; by the latter the entire disappearance of the vital actions of the ultimate structural constituents of the body. When death takes place, the body as a whole dies first, the death of the tissues sometimes not occurring until after a considerable interval. Huxley.

Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.

The death of a language can not be exactly compared with the death of a plant. — J. Peile

Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.

A death that I abhor. — Shakespeare

Let me die the death of the righteous. — Num. xxiii. 10

Cause of loss of life.

Swiftly flies the feathered death. — Dryden

He caught his death the last county sessions. — Addison

Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.

Death! great proprietor of all. — Young

And I looked, and behold a pale horse; and his name that sat on him was Death. — Rev. vi. 8

Danger of death.

In deaths oft. — 2 Cor. xi. 23

Murder; murderous character.

Not to suffer a man of death to live. — Bacon

(Theology) Loss of spiritual life.

To be carnally minded is death. — Rom. viii. 6

Anything so dreadful as to be like death.

It was death to them to think of entertaining such doctrines. — Atterbury

And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death. — Judg. xvi. 16

The death bell thrice was heard to ring. — Mickle

And round about in reel and rout, The death fires danced at night. — Coleridge

At all ages the death rate is higher in towns than in rural districts. — Darwin

Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? — Job xxxviii. 17

Death is much used adjectively and as the first part of a compound, meaning, in general, of or pertaining to death, causing or presaging death; as, deathbed or death bed; deathblow or death blow, etc.