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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EVERL`ASTING, a. [ever and lasting.] Lasting or enduring for ever; eternal; existing or continuing without end; immortal.
The everlasting God, or Jehovah. Genesis 21.
Everlasting fire; everlasting punishment. Mat
18:25.
1. Perpetual; continuing indefinitely, or during the present state of things.
I will give thee, and thy seed after thee, the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. Genesis 17.
The everlasting hills or mountains. Genesis. Habakkuk.
2. In popular usage, endless; continual; unintermitted; as, the family is disturbed with everlasting disputes.
EVERL`ASTING, n. Eternity; eternal duration, past and future.
From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Psalms 90.
1. A plant, the Gnaphalium; also, the Xeranthenum.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: continuing forever or indefinitely; "the ageless themes of love and revenge"; "eternal truths"; "life everlasting"; "hell's perpetual fires"; "the unending bliss of heaven" [syn: ageless, aeonian, eonian, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unending, unceasing]
2: without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth" [syn: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, stark, staring, thoroughgoing, utter, unadulterated] n
1: any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color [syn: everlasting, everlasting flower]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Date: 13th century 1. lasting or enduring through all time ; eternal 2. a. (1) continuing for a long time or indefinitely (2) having or being flowers or foliage that retain form or color for a long time when dried b. tediously persistent <the everlasting sympathy-seeker who demands attention — H. A. Overstreet> 3. wearing indefinitely <everlasting twill pants> • everlastingly adverb • everlastingness noun II. noun Date: 14th century 1. eternity <from everlasting> 2. capitalized god 1 — used with the 3. a. any of several chiefly composite plants (as cudweed) with flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color — compare pearly everlasting b. the flower of an everlasting

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. 1 lasting for ever. 2 lasting for a long time, esp. so as to become unwelcome. 3 (of flowers) keeping their shape and colour when dried. --n. 1 eternity. 2 = IMMORTELLE. Derivatives: everlastingly adv. everlastingness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Everlasting Ever*last"inga. 1. Lasting or enduring forever; exsisting or continuing without end; immoral; eternal. ``The Everlasting God.'' --Gen. xx1. 33. 2. Continuing indefinitely, or during a long period; perpetual; sometimes used, colloquially, as a strong intensive; as, this everlasting nonsence. I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee . . . the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. --Gen xvii. 8. And heard thy everlasting yawn confess The pains and penalties of idleness. --Pope. Syn: Eternal; immortal, interminable; endless; never-ending; infinite; unceasing; uninterrupted; continual; unintermitted; incessant. Usage: - Everlasting, Eternal. Eternal denotes (when taken strictly) without beginning or end of duration; everlasting is sometimes used in our version of the Scriptures in the sense of eternal, but in modern usage is confined to the future, and implies no intermission as well as no end. Whether we shall meet again I know not; Therefore our everlasting farewell take; Forever, and forever farewell, Cassius. --Shak. Everlasting flower. Sane as Everlasting, n., 3. Everlasting pea, an ornamental plant (Lathyrus latifolius) related to the pea; -- so called because it is perennial.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Something that is everlasting never comes to an end. ...a message of peace and everlasting life. = eternal ADJ

Easton's Bible Dictionary

eternal, applied to God (Gen. 21:33; Deut. 33:27; Ps. 41:13; 90:2). We also read of the "everlasting hills" (Gen. 49:26); an "everlasting priesthood" (Ex. 40:15; Num. 25:13). (See ETERNAL.)

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ev-er-last'-ing (olam, `adh; aidios, aionios):

"Everlasting," in strictness, is that which endures forever; either that which has no beginning and will have no end (in which sense it is applicable to God only), or that which, having a beginning, will have no end, but henceforth will exist forever (thus of beings created for immortality; see IMMORTALITY). Figuratively also the term is applied to objects of impressive stability and long duration, as mountains, hills (eg. Ge 49:26; Hab 3:6).

Of the terms indicated as rendered by this word, `olam in the Old Testament and aionios in the New Testament, literally, "age-long," generally bear the full sense of "eternal" (always as applied to God, His mercy, His covenant, His kingdom and to the eternal life of believers). Hence, in the Revised Version (British and American) the rendering "everlasting" in the King James Version is, in the New Testament, uniformly changed to "eternal" (eg. Mt 18:8; 25:41,46; Lu 16:9; 18:30; Joh 3:16,36, etc.; Ac 13:46; Ro 6:22; 16:26; Ga 6:8; Heb 13:20). In the Old Testament the rendering "everlasting" is usually retained in the Revised Version (British and American), and sometimes takes the place of other words or phrases, as "lasting" (De 33:15), "ever," "forever" (1Ch 16:36; Ne 9:5), "perpetual" (Hab 3:6; Jer 50:5), "of old" (Hab 3:6 margin). In Ps 100:5; 119:144, on the other hand, the Revised Version (British and American) changes the word to "for ever." In much the larger number of places `olam is translated "ever" or "for ever."

The word `adh, in the two cases in which it is translated "everlasting" in the King James Version (more frequently "for ever"), is in the Revised Version (British and American), in Isa 9:6, retained, with margin, "Father of Eternity," and in Hab 3:6 is changed into "eternal." Another word, qedhem, with the meaning "ancient time," is rendered "everlasting" in Hab 1:12 ("Art not thou from everlasting?"). With the same meaning it occurs in De 33:27, "The eternal God is thy dwelling-place."

The word which strictly answers to "everlasting" in the New Testament is aidios (Ro 1:20; Jude 1:6), rendered by the King James Version in the former passages "eternal," but correctly by the Revised Version (British and American) in both passages, "everlasting." The sense of the word "everlasting," in application to future punishment, is considered in the article PUNISHMENT, EVERLASTING.

The term "everlasting" or "eternal," applied to God, describes Him as filling, or enduring through, all the "ages" of time. It is only thus that we can symbolically represent eternity. In reality, however, the eternity of God is not simply His filling of ever-flowing "ages," but rather that aspect of His being in which He is above time; for which time (the succession-form of existence) does not exist; to which the terms past, present and future do not apply. Yet, while God is not in time (rather holds time in Himself), time-sequence, as the form of existence of the world, is a reality for God.

See ETERNAL; ETERNITY.

James Orr

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. a. 1. Endless, unending, ever-during, perpetual, incessant, ceaseless, continual, uninterrupted, interminable, unceasing, never-ceasing, never-ending, eternal. 2. Imperishable, undying, never-dying, ever-living, deathless, immortal. 3. (Colloq.) Continual, ceaseless, unintermitting, perpetual, constant, never remitted, uninterrupted. II. n. 1. Eternity. 2. Cudweed, goldylocks, immortelle.

Moby Thesaurus

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