:2. The [[state]] of [[being]] dead; the state or condition of being without life, animation, or activity. death-in-life, life that lacks any satisfaction or [[purpose]]; living death. (Cf. quot. 1841 s.v. DEATHLINESS.) ¶In preceding senses the death was frequent in Old and Middle English, and down to the 16th c. See also 7, 12c, 13; to die the death: see DIE. | :2. The [[state]] of [[being]] dead; the state or condition of being without life, animation, or activity. death-in-life, life that lacks any satisfaction or [[purpose]]; living death. (Cf. quot. 1841 s.v. DEATHLINESS.) ¶In preceding senses the death was frequent in Old and Middle English, and down to the 16th c. See also 7, 12c, 13; to die the death: see DIE. |