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amort, adv. and pred. a.|əˈmɔːt|
[a. Fr. à mort at or to death; but it appears that the Fr. à la mort ‘to the death’ was orig. adopted, and corrupted to all amort, the Fr. à mort excusing the change, and leading to the use of amort without all.]
In the state or act of death; lifeless, inanimate; fig. spiritless, dejected. a. with all. (See also alamort, the original form.)
c1590Greene Friar Bacon i. i, Shall he thus all amort live malcontent? 1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, iii. ii. 124 Now where's the Bastards braues, and Charles his glikes? What all amort? 1600Holland Livy xxxiv. xxvi. 868 i, They were all amort [obpressam] for feare. 1659Burroughs Beatitudes (1867) 128 If God do not answer thee presently, thou art all-a-mort and discouraged. 1839Bailey Festus xxx. (1848) 343 Why look ye all amort?
b. without all (suggested however in first quot.).
1619H. Hutton Follie's Anat. (1842) 24 She counts him but a nazard, halfe a-mort. 1667Waterhouse Fire of Lond. 62 Without it [Gods allowance] all is abortive and amort. 1840Browning Sordello vi. Wks. 1863 III. 435 Untasked of any love, His sensitiveness idled, now amort, Alive now. |