eviternal

English

Etymology

From Latin eviternus, aeternus, aeviternitas (“eviternity”) + -al. See eternal.

Adjective

eviternal (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) eternal; everlasting
   • 1640, Joseph Hall, Christian Moderation:

     What is the heaven itself, but (as Gerson compares it well) as a great clock regularly moving in an equall sway of all the orbs, without difference of poyse, without variation of minutes, in a constant state of eviternall evennesse, both of being and motion.

   • 1874, Paschal Beverly Randolph, Eulis! the History of Love, Part 1: Affectional Alchemy:

     new souls, just created, requiring a thousand or two of ages to get their eternal sea-legs on, before being able to steadily walk the decks of the eviternal ship of centuries and power, or compete with those who, living now, yet have passed their ordeals long before this civilization had taken root in the mouldy soil of scores that had preceded it.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:eternal

Related terms

• aeviternal
• eviternally

References

• “eviternal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• intervale, vertaline