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mortified, ppl. a.|ˈmɔːtɪfaɪd|
[f. mortify v. + -ed1.]
1. In religious use, of persons, their actions or occupations: Dead to sin or the world; having the appetites and passions in subjection; ascetic. Now rare.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 143 How euery mortifyed soule..sholde resorte to y⊇ arke of clere conscyence & there counseyle with god. 1579Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 488/2 Ho, thou art of the companie of hypocrites, thou art mortified. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. i. i. 28. 1646 Buck Rich. III, i. 4 Such a mortified and perilous Pilgrimage to Jerusalem. 1651Wood Life (O.H.S.) I. 166 He became a mortified and pious minister in Shropshire. 1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. i. lxiii. (1674) 79 That laudable zeal of Reputation, which is most intense in even the most mortified Vertuosi. a1668R. Lassels Voy. Italy ii. (1670) 19 They content themselves to go bare foot, and teach only the lower Schools, and first rudiments;..A strange mortified trade. 1704Nelson Fest. & Fasts ii. Prel. Instr. (1707) 436 St. James the Great and St. John were very eminent for a mortified Life. 1720Strype Stow's Surv. 17/1 A long Beard, Eyes sunk, and an old mortified Face. 1829Southey All for Love iv. iv. Poet. Wks. VII. 170 To carnal wishes would it turn The mortified intent? 1844Lingard Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858) I. iii. 120 An abstemious and mortified life.
†b. mortified to (rarely mortified of): dead to (the world or its pleasures); hence occas. = insensible to. Obs.
1659Gentl. Calling ix. §8, I fear there are few so mortified to wealth, as to do it upon the score of self-denial. 1660N. Ingelo Bentiv. & Ur. ii. (1682) 89 He is mortified to all sense of Ingenuous Principles. 1670Eachard Cont. Clergy 90 An hardy and labouring clergy, that is mortified to an horse, and all such pampering vanities. 1676Ray Corr. (1848) 123 Reputation (to the vanity of any affectation whereof I desire to be wholly mortified). 1748Mrs. Harrison House-keeper's Pocket-Bk. Pref., There are but few Philosophers..who are so..mortified to the world as to prefer a dish of Roots. 1809Malkin Gil Blas x. i, You are mortified to all the pomps and vanities of the world.
†c. In jocular use: Abstemious. Obs.
1665Pepys Diary 16 Oct., I observing Mr. Povy's being mightily mortifyed in his eating.
†2. Dead, slain. Obs.
1593R. Harvey Philad. 17 If any man will raise them from the graue, who will beleeue their mortified Ghosts? 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 270 Having ended his speech, he shewed vnto them the grisely mortified heads. 1625Fletcher & Shirley Night Walker ii, My young Mistriss, that is mortified.
†3. Deadened; numbed; insensible. Obs.
1601Shakes. Jul. C. ii. i. 324 Thou like an Exorcist, hast coniur'd vp My mortified Spirit. 1605― Lear ii. iii. 15 Bedlam beggers, who with roaring voices, Strike in their num'd and mortified Armes, Pins, Wodden-prickes, Nayles.
4. Affected by gangrene or necrosis.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 33 b, It is necessarye that the vivificent parte expelle from it the mortified. a1676Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. i. (1677) 23 A mortified Limb or Member. 1695New Light Chirurg. put out 52 His Arm was but little swell'd and not at all mortified. 1720De Foe Capt. Singleton xi. (1840) 196 He cut off a great deal of mortified flesh. 1801Med. Jrnl. V. 534, I found the fingers and thumb exhibiting a mortified appearance. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 656 The mortified parts..are cast off.
†b. transf. Of plants: Decayed. Obs.
1672–3Grew Anat. Plants, Anat. Roots ii. (1682) 83 Divers of the Succiferous Vessels..lying next the Soil, usually more or less mortified.
†5. Of meat: see mortify v. 6. Obs.
1617Moryson Itin. iii. 134 The French alone delight in mortified meates. 1733Tull Horse-hoeing Husb. 38 Palates, accustom'd to the Goût of..mortify'd Venison.
6. Scots Law. (See mortify v. 5.)
1655in Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) App. 38/2 The aforsaid mortified sowmes. 1813Carlisle Topogr. Dict. Scot. II. s.v. Hoddom, {pstlg}400..arising from two mortified sums.
7. Humiliated deeply; vexed, chagrined.
1717Lady M. W. Montagu Lett. II. xlv. 29 As I prefer English to all the rest, I am extremely mortified at the daily decay of it in my head. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 341 They came home to the rest mortified, wet, and almost famished. 1833H. Martineau Loom & Lugger ii. iii. 54 They were mortified at finding the house shut. 1838Lytton Alice i. iii, The mortified pride of affection. 1885S. Cox Expos. xxv. 343 Base greed and mortified ambition moved him to betray his master.
Hence ˈmortifiedly adv., ˈmortifiedness.
1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 127 If..a young Student sets not a grave face on it, or seemes not mortifiedly religious. 1643T. Goodwin Trial Chr. Growth 122 So much mortifiednesse, so much constancie. 1832T. Scott Comm. 2 Kings i. 8 In this manner he showed his mortifiedness to the world. 1846Landor Exam. Shaks. Wks. II. 298 Whereunto Sir Thomas replied mortifiedly. |