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▪ I. alamort, ‖ à la mort, adv. (pred. a.)
(æləˈmɔːt, Fr. a la mɔːr)
[Fr. à la mort to the death: as elle estoit chargée à la mort Palissy (16th c.). Formerly quite naturalized; now often treated as Fr. Sometimes corrupted to all amort (cf. al a mode, all agog); and at length amort was occasionally used without al or all, being taken as = Fr. à mort ‘to death.’]
1. adv. To the death, mortally.
1592W. Wyrley Armorie 155, I drooping passe as one stroke alemort. 1725in Biblioth. Biblica III. 142 The Raven ominous (as Gentiles holde), What time she croaketh hoarsely a la morte. 1833Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) II. 479 The combat à la mort was of their own beginning.
2. adj. Sick to death, mortally sick; dispirited.
1592Lilly Midas v. ii. 60 How now, Motto, all a-mort? 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. iv. iii. 36 What sweeting all-mort? a1658Cleveland Gen. Eclipse vii, The whole World is al-a-mort. ― Content 24 Drink the A la mort Sun down and up agen. 1700Dryden Wife of Bath's T. 340 Mirth there was none, the man was ‘a-la-mort.’ 1753Richardson Grandison (1781) I. xvi. 107 Ah my poor boy! Thus alamort! 1820Keats St. Agnes viii, She sighs..all amort.
▪ II. † alaˈmort, v. Obs. rare—1.
[f. prec.]
To become mortally sick, to pine.
1705Hickeringill Priest-cr. iv. (1721) 215 One Bishop would not, of old, be pleased with a fat Bishoprick, but Chagrin and Alamort, because not Archbishop. |