1) the death of the body
    1a) that separation (whether natural or violent) of the soul and
        the body by which the life on earth is ended
    1b) with the implied idea of future misery in hell
        1b1) the power of death
    1c) 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
 2) metaph., the loss of that life which alone is worthy of the name,
    2a) the misery of the soul arising from sin, which begins on earth
        but lasts and increases after the death of the body in hell
 3) the miserable state of the wicked dead in hell
 4) 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