2. Concerning great intensity or anxiety: Little Timmy showed mortal fear of the large snake that suddenly appeared in the garden.
3. Regarding something possible or conceivable: Mary's father did every mortal and feasible thing to make his daughter happy while she was in hospital following the car accident.
4. Pertaining to something that causes death; fatal: During the war, there were many soldiers who died because of mortal wounds.l
"Death Speaks"
There was a merchant in Baghdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, "Master, just now when I was in the market place I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture; now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go on to Samarra and there Death will not find me."
The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went.
Then the merchant went down to the market-place and he saw me standing in the crowd and he came to me and said, "Why did you make a threatening gesture to my servant when you saw him this morning?"
"That was not a threatening gesture," I said, "it was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra."
2. A personal enemy.
2. A sin; such as, murder or blasphemy, that is so heinous it deprives the soul of sanctifying grace and causes damnation if unpardoned at the time of death.
3. A willfully committed, serious transgression against the law of God, depriving the soul of divine grace.
Theologians have listed seven mortal sins, including: perjury, adultery, lust, murder, contraceptive use, and abortion.