morient

Adjective

1. Dying, moribund.
   • Former ages have ſeen Antichriſt Naſcent, when the Biſhop of Rome firſt uſurped authority over all the Churches; Antichriſt Creſcent, when he began to maintain the doctrine of adoring Images, and praying to Saints...
   • We are Cadent, if not Morient; we do not want for ſin; there is a Spirit of wickedneſs in the Land. - 1671, Thomas Watson, The Mischief of Sinne, It Brings a Person Low, London: […] Tho[mas] Parkhurst, […], pages 48–49:
   • [Richard] Crakanthorpe (in his Vigilius Dormitans) obſerves, that Antichrist was Naſcent when Rome uſurp’d authority firſt over all the Churches; 2ly he was Creſcent, when he maintained Adoring of Images, and Praying to...