mortify

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.

   “Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body.”

2. fiil To injure the dignity of; to embarrass; to humiliate.

   “I was so mortified I could have died right there; instead I fainted, but I swore I'd never let that happen to me again.”

3. fiil To kill.

   “The second Spring after transplanting, purge them of all superfluous shoots and scions, reserving only the most towardly for the future stem; this to be done yearly, as long as they continue in the nursery; and if of the principal stem so left, the frost mortifie any part, cut it off [...]”

4. fiil To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.

   “Soothly, the gode werkes, that he dide biforn that he fil in sinne, been al mortified and astoned and dulled by the ofte sinning.”

5. fiil To affect with vexation or chagrin.

   “He seemed to enjoy mortifying them with news of every fresh hell loosed in the capital.”

6. fiil To scare.

   “Please don't mortify your mother by telling her what a stupidly dangerous thing you did last night.”

7. fiil To humble; to depress.
8. fiil To grant in mortmain.

   “the schoolmasters of Ayr were paid out of the mills mortified by Queen Mary”

9. fiil To lose vitality.

   “[...] Tis a pure ill-natur'd ſatisfaction to ſee one that was a beauty unfortunately move with the ſame languor, and ſoftneſs of behaviour, that once was charming in her—To ſee, I ſay, her mortify that us'd to kill [...]”

10. fiil To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.

    “Servius the Grammarian being troubled with the gowt, found no better meanes to be rid of it, than to apply poison to mortifie [translating tuer] his legs.”

11. fiil To gangrene.
12. fiil To be subdued.