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   Eternal , a. [F. éternel, L. aeternalis, fr. aeternus. See Etern.]
   Without beginning or end of existence; always existing.
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   The eternal God is thy refuge.
   Deut. xxxiii. 27.
   
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   To know wether there were any real being, whose duration has been eternal.
   Locke.
   
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   Without end of existence or duration; everlasting; endless; immortal.
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   That they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.
   2 Tim. ii. 10.
   
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   Continued without intermission; perpetual; ceaseless; constant.
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   And fires eternal in thy temple shine.
   Dryden.
   
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   Existing at all times without change; immutable.
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   Hobbes believed the eternal truths which he opposed.
   Dryden.
   
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   What are the eternal objects of poetry among all nations, and at all times?
   M. Arnold.
   
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   Exceedingly great or bad; -- used as a strong intensive. “Some eternal villain.”
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   The Eternal City, an appellation of Rome.
   Syn. -- Everlasting; endless; infinite; ceaseless; perpetual; interminable. See Everlasting.
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   Eternal, n.
   One of the appellations of God.
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   Law whereby the Eternal himself doth work.
   Hooker.
   
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   That which is endless and immortal.
   Young.
   
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