MPage 244
- English Word Mortification Definition Hence: Deprivation or depression of self-approval; abatement or pride; humiliation; chagrin; vexation.
- English Word Mortification Definition That which mortifies; the cause of humiliation, chagrin, or vexation.
- English Word Mortification Definition A gift to some charitable or religious institution; -- nearly synonymous with mortmain.
- English Word Mortified Definition imp. & p. p. of Mortify.
- English Word Mortified Definition of Mortify
- English Word Mortifiedness Definition The state of being mortified; humiliation; subjection of the passions.
- English Word Mortifier Definition One who, or that which, mortifies.
- English Word Mortify Definition To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.
- English Word Mortify Definition To destroy the active powers or essential qualities of; to change by chemical action.
- English Word Mortify Definition To deaden by religious or other discipline, as the carnal affections, bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into subjection; to abase; to humble.
- English Word Mortify Definition To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
- English Word Mortify Definition To lose vitality and organic structure, as flesh of a living body; to gangrene.
- English Word Mortify Definition To practice penance from religious motives; to deaden desires by religious discipline.
- English Word Mortify Definition To be subdued; to decay, as appetites, desires, etc.
- English Word Mortifying Definition of Mortify
- English Word Mortifying Definition Tending to mortify; affected by, or having symptoms of, mortification; as, a mortifying wound; mortifying flesh.
- English Word Mortifying Definition Subduing the appetites, desires, etc.; as, mortifying penances.
- English Word Mortifying Definition Tending to humble or abase; humiliating; as, a mortifying repulse.
- English Word Mortifyingly Definition In a mortifying manner.
- English Word Mortise Definition A cavity cut into a piece of timber, or other material, to receive something (as the end of another piece) made to fit it, and called a tenon.
- English Word Mortise Definition To cut or make a mortisein.
- English Word Mortise Definition To join or fasten by a tenon and mortise; as, to mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder.
- English Word Mortised Definition of Mortise
- English Word Mortising Definition of Mortise
- English Word Mortling Definition An animal, as a sheep, dead of disease or privation; a mortling.
- English Word Mortling Definition Wool plucked from a dead sheep; morling.
- English Word Mortmain Definition Possession of lands or tenements in, or conveyance to, dead hands, or hands that cannot alienate.
- English Word Mortmal Definition See Mormal.
- English Word Mortpay Definition Dead pay; the crime of taking pay for the service of dead soldiers, or for services not actually rendered by soldiers.
- English Word Mortress Definition Alt. of Mortrew