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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Enduring forever; eternal. See Synonyms at infinite.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Eternal; everlasting; endless; having no end.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Seemingly everlasting or eternal.
  2. adj. philosophy everlasting, that is having infinite temporal duration; as opposed to eternal, outside time and thus lacking temporal duration

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Of neverending duration; everlasting; endless; having beginning, but no end.
  2. adj. Without beginning or end; eternal.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. having no known beginning and presumably no end

Etymologies

  1. From Medieval Latin sempiternālis, from Latin sempiternus, a contraction of semperæternus, from semper ("always") + æternus ("eternal"). Possibly via French sempiternel. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old French sempiternel, from Late Latin sempiternālis, from Latin sempiternus : semper, always; see sem-1 in Indo-European roots + aeternus, eternal; see aiw- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • chained_bear Not from the U.S. Marine Corps? Aug 14, 2008

  • super-logos Semper means "always." This is a word I have heard in Christian prayers. Aug 14, 2008

  • brtom "Empty of everything, in a hum of sempiternal readiness for that soul-wilting, muse-recoiling Jawohl, Herr Kommandant! to shoot up one’s spinal column as quick as a blastula ..." from John Latta's Isola di Rifiuti Aug 3, 2007

  • palooka dateless: having no known beginning and presumably no end. per wordnet. Mar 20, 2007

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