[ad. L. athanasia, a. Gr. ἀθανασία; f. ἀ priv. + θάνατος death.] Deathlessness, immortality.
[1829. Southey, Sir T. More, II. 395. My verses … had none of the athanasia in their composition.]
1870. Lowell, Study Wind. (1871), 346. Is not, then, a scholiastic athanasy better than none?
