EVERL'ASTING, adjective [ever and lasting.] Lasting or enduring for ever; eternal; existing or continuing without end; immortal. The everlasting God, or Jehovah. Genesis 21:33. Everlasting fire; everlasting punishment. Matthew 18:25. 1. Perpetual; continuing indefinitely, or during the present state of things. I will give thee, and thy seed after thee, the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. Genesis 17:7. The everlasting hills or mountains. Genesis. Habakkuk. 2. In popular usage, endless; continual; unintermitted; as, the family is disturbed with everlasting disputes. EVERL'ASTING, noun Eternity; eternal duration, past and future. From everlasting to everlasting thou art God. Psalms 90:2. 1. A plant, the Gnaphalium; also, the Xeranthenum.
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