Mor-tal'i-ty, n.
n. [Lat. mortalitas, Fr. mortalité, Pr. mortalidat, Sp. mortalidad, mortalidad, It. mortalità.]
Sense 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.
Sense 2. Death; destruction.
Gladly would I meet Mortality, my sentence. Milton.
Sense 3. The whole sum or number of deaths in a given time or a given community; as, a great mortality.
Sense 4. Those who are, or that which is mortal; the human race; humanity; human nature. “Take these tears, mortality’s relief.” Pope.
Bill of mortality. See 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.