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.
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.
Mor"tal*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mortalized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Mortalizing (?).] To make mortal. [R.]
Mor"tal*ly, adv. 1. In a mortal manner; so as to cause death; as,
mortally wounded.