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sempiternal, a.|sɛmpɪˈtɜːnəl|
Also sempiternall, sempyternal, -el, 5–7 sempiternall, 6 sempyternall, 6–7 sempeternal.
[a. F. sempiternel (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), or ad. late L. sempiternāl-is, f. L. sempitern-us: see sempitern a. and -al1.]
Enduring constantly and continually; everlasting, eternal.
14..Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1903) 113 As thou art cyte of god, & sempiternal throne, Here now, blessyd lady, my wofulle mone. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) III. 183 Trawthe is immortalle, immutable, and sempiternalle. 1566Painter Pal. Pleas. xxvii. (1569) 55 A miraculous acte, and worthie (in deede) of sempiternall remembraunce. 1579–80North Plutarch, Camillus (1595) 152 Some writers say, that they [sc. the Vestals] had nothing els in keeping but the sempiternall fire. 1632Lithgow Trav. x. 437 Queene Elizabeth of sempiternall renowne. a1730G. Guthrie Monogr. (1900) 66 Fearing it might be a sempiternal work to him. 1784Cowper Task ii. 499 All truth is from the sempiternal source Of Light Divine. 1831J. Jekyll Corr. 18 July (1894) 274 Dull dinners..with the sempiternal saddle of mutton. 1860Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. III. cxxiv. 75 Two sources of war are sempiternal. 1884World 20 Aug. 8/1 We have discovered the elixir of sempiternal juvenility. |