material vs mortal

material

adj
  • Worldly, as opposed to spiritual. 

  • Significant. 

  • Having to do with matter; consisting of matter. 

noun
  • All of a player's pieces and pawns on the chessboard. 

  • Related data of various kinds, especially if collected as the basis for a document or book. 

  • The substance that something is made or composed of. 

  • Matter which may be shaped or manipulated, particularly in making something. 

  • Text written for a specific purpose. 

  • A sample or specimens for study. 

  • Cloth to be made into a garment. Fabric. 

  • An element of a design language associated with a certain style of rendering on the display. 

  • A person, or people collectively, who are qualified for a certain position or activity. 

mortal

adj
  • Of a sin: involving the penalty of spiritual death, rather than merely venial. 

  • Human; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal. 

  • Of or relating to the time of death. 

  • Punishable by death. 

  • Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly. 

  • Very painful or tedious; wearisome. 

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

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

  • Very drunk. 

  • Fatally vulnerable. 

adv
  • Mortally; enough to cause death. 

noun
  • A human; someone susceptible to death. 

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