Category:Everlasting

Ever*last"ing a.

1. Lasting or enduring forever; exsisting or continuing without end; immoral; eternal. "The Everlasting God." Genesis 21:33.

2. (a). Continuing indefinitely, or during a long period; perpetual; I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee. . . the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. Genesis 17:8. (b).--sometimes used, colloquially, as a strong intensive; as, this everlasting nonsense. 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. - 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. Same as Everlasting, n., 3. -- Everlasting pea, an ornamental plant (Lathyrus latifolius) related to the pea; -- so called because it is perennial.

everlasting Ev`er*last"ing, n.

1. Eternal duration, past of future; eternity. From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Ps. xc. 2.

2. (With the definite article) The Eternal Being; God.

3. (Bot.)

Defn: A plant whose flowers may be dried without losing their form or color, as the pearly everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea), the immortelle of the French, the cudweeds, etc.

4. A cloth fabric for shoes, etc. See Lasting.

---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary.

Everlasting - Eternal, applied to God (Genesis 21:33; Deuteronomy 33:27; Psalms 41:13; Psalms 90:2). We also read of the "everlasting hills" (Genesis 49:26); an "everlasting priesthood" (Exodus 40:15; Numbers 25:13). (See ETERNAL.)