Mortality /(?)/

Mor·tal·i·ty

Mortality

n.
  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.
  2. Human life; the life of a mortal being.
    From this instant There 's nothing serious in mortality.
  3. Those who are, or that which is, mortal; the human race; humanity; human nature.
    Take these tears, mortality's relief.
  4. Death; destruction.
  5. The whole sum or number of deaths in a given time or a given community; also, the proportion of deaths to population, or to a specific number of the population; death rate; as, a time of great, or low, mortality; the mortality among the settlers was alarming.

Phrases & Compounds
Bill of mortality
See under 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.