a. Obs. rare. [f. L. ævitern-us (the full form, of which ætern-us is the contr., f. ævum an age + -ternus adj. suffix) + -AL 1.] Everlasting, endless, eternal.

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1660.  T. Stanley, Hist. Philos., III. II. 137. Gods placed in the highest regions of aether, aeviternall. Ibid. (1701), 817/1. The second or middle kind of Things is begun in time, but is without end (commonly termed æviternal).

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