everlasting

everlasting
    adj 1: continuing forever or indefinitely; "the ageless themes
           of love and revenge"; "eternal truths"; "life
           everlasting"; "hell's perpetual fires"; "the unending
           bliss of heaven" [syn: {ageless}, {aeonian}, {eonian},
           {eternal}, {everlasting}, {perpetual}, {unending},
           {unceasing}]
    2: without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative)
       intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a
       consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross
       negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding
       mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter
       nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth" [syn: {arrant(a)},
       {complete(a)}, {consummate(a)}, {double-dyed(a)},
       {everlasting(a)}, {gross(a)}, {perfect(a)}, {pure(a)},
       {sodding(a)}, {stark(a)}, {staring(a)}, {thoroughgoing(a)},
       {utter(a)}, {unadulterated}]
    n 1: any of various plants of various genera of the family
         Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of
         form or color [syn: {everlasting}, {everlasting flower}]
    

Everlasting \Ev`er*last"ing\, n.
   1. Eternal duration, past or future; eternity.
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            From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. --Ps.
                                                  xc. 2.
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   2. (With the definite article) The Eternal Being; God.
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   3. (Bot.) A plant whose flowers may be dried without losing
      their form or color, as, the pearly everlasting
      ({Anaphalis margaritacea}), the {immortelle} ({Xeranthemum
      anuum}) of the French, the cudweeds, etc.
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   4. A cloth fabric for shoes, etc. See {Lasting}.
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Everlasting \Ever*last"ing\a.
   1. Lasting or enduring forever; exsisting or continuing
      without end; immortal; eternal. "The Everlasting God."
      --Gen. xx1. 33.
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   2. Continuing indefinitely, or during a long period;
      perpetual; sometimes used, colloquially, as a strong
      intensive; as, this everlasting nonsence.
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            I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee . .
            . the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession.
                                                  --Gen xvii. 8.
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            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.

   Usage: -- {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.
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                Whether we shall meet again I know not;
                Therefore our everlasting farewell take;
                Forever, and forever farewell, Cassius. --Shak.
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   {Everlasting flower}. Sane as {Everlasting}, n., 3.

   {Everlasting pea}, an ornamental plant ({Lathyrus
      latifolius}) related to the pea; -- so called because it
      is perennial.
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EVERLASTING, adj.  Lasting forever.  It is with no small diffidence
that I venture to offer this brief and elementary definition, for I am
not unaware of the existence of a bulky volume by a sometime Bishop of
Worcester, entitled, _A Partial Definition of the Word "Everlasting,"
as Used in the Authorized Version of the Holy Scriptures_.  His book
was once esteemed of great authority in the Anglican Church, and is
still, I understand, studied with pleasure to the mind and profit of
the soul.
    

Everlasting
eternal, applied to God (Gen. 21:33; Deut. 33:27; Ps. 41:13;
90:2). We also read of the "everlasting hills" (Gen. 49:26); an
"everlasting priesthood" (Ex. 40:15; Num. 25:13). (See {ETERNAL}.)
    

109 Moby Thesaurus words for "everlasting":
      ageless, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty,
      amaranthine, blah, boundless, broken-record, ceaseless, changeless,
      coeternal, constant, continual, continuous, creating, creative,
      dateless, deathless, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull,
      dusty, embalmed, endless, eternal, eternally the same, eterne,
      ever-being, ever-durable, ever-during, ever-fresh, everliving,
      fadeless, frozen, glorious, good, hallowed, harping, highest, holy,
      humdrum, immemorial, immortal, immutable, imperishable, incessant,
      incorruptible, indestructible, infinite, interminable, invariable,
      jog-trot, just, lasting, limitless, long-winded, loving, luminous,
      majestic, making, merciful, monotonous, never-ceasing, never-dying,
      never-ending, nonstop, nonterminating, nonterminous, numinous,
      olamic, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, perdurable,
      permanent, perpetual, prolix, radiant, sacred, sempiternal,
      shaping, singsong, sovereign, steady, supreme, tedious, termless,
      timeless, treadmill, ubiquitous, unbounded, unceasing, unchanging,
      undefined, undying, unending, uneventful, unfading, unintermitting,
      uninterrupted, unlimited, unremitting, unvarying, without end