undecayable

Updated: June 20, 2025

And so, all these things duly considered, they very reverently assassinated the great, never-dying sachem; for though safe against disease, and undecayable by age, he was capable of being killed by violence, though the hardness of his skull broke to fragments the stone tomahawk with which they at first tried to kill him.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life