<OL TYPE="1"><LI>the death of the body<OL TYPE="a"><LI>that separation (whether natural or violent) of the soul and the body by which the life on earth is ended<LI>with the implied idea of future misery in hell<OL TYPE="1"><LI>the power of death</OL><LI>since the nether world, the abode of the dead, was conceived as being very dark, it is equivalent to the region of thickest darkness i.e. figuratively, a region enveloped in the darkness of ignorance and sin</OL><LI>metaph., the loss of that life which alone is worthy of the name,<OL TYPE="a"><LI>the misery of the soul arising from sin, which begins on earth but lasts and increases after the death of the body in hell</OL><LI>the miserable state of the wicked dead in hell<LI>in the widest sense, death comprising all the miseries arising from sin, as well physical death as the loss of a life consecrated to God and blessed in him on earth, to be followed by wretchedness in hell</OL>