Definition of Mortelity
Mor*tal"i*ty (?), n. [L.
mortalitas: cf. F. mortalité.]
1. The condition or quality of being mortal;
subjection to death or to the necessity of dying.
When I saw her die,
I then did think on your mortality.
Carew.
2. Human life; the life of a mortal
being.
From this instant
There 's nothing serious in mortality.
Shak.
3. Those who are, or that which is, mortal;
the human race; humanity; human nature.
Take these tears, mortality's
relief. Pope.
4. Death; destruction.
Shak.
5. The whole sum or number of deaths in a
given time or a given community; also, the proportion of deaths to
population, or to a specific number of the population; death rate;
as, a time of great, or low, mortality; the mortality
among the settlers was alarming.
Bill of mortality. See under
Bill. -- Law of mortality, a
mathematical relation between the numbers living at different ages,
so that from a given large number of persons alive at one age, it can
be computed what number are likely to survive a given number of
years. -- Table of mortality, a table
exhibiting the average relative number of persons who survive, or who
have died, at the end of each year of life, out of a given number
supposed to have been born at the same time.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- The condition of being susceptible to death
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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