E·ter·nal a.
 1. Without beginning or end of existence; always existing.
    The eternal God is thy refuge.   --Deut. xxxiii. 27.
    To know wether there were any real being, whose duration has been eternal.   --Locke.
 2. Without end of existence or duration; everlasting; endless; immortal.
    That they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.   --2 Tim. ii. 10.
 3. Continued without intermission; perpetual; ceaseless; constant.
    And fires eternal in thy temple shine.   --Dryden.
 4. Existing at all times without change; immutable.
    Hobbes believed the eternal truths which he opposed.   --Dryden.
    What are the eternal objects of poetry among all nations, and at all times?   --M. Arnold.
 5. Exceedingly great or bad; -- used as a strong intensive. “Some eternal villain.”
 The Eternal City, an appellation of Rome.
 Syn: -- Everlasting; endless; infinite; ceaseless; perpetual; interminable. See Everlasting.