mortgagedadj.

a1627 W. Rowley & T. Middleton Wit at Severall Weapons i. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Iiiiii3^v/1 To redeem morgag'd Land.

1648 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 205 Whereas by the death of the sayd Isabell my daughter the estate and interest in the said mortgaged premises..is survived and come to the sayd Catherine and Anne my daughters.

1718 Free-thinker No. 42. 2 He will redeem his mortgaged Estate at any Price.

1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 173 That in mortgaged or trust-estates, the person in possession..shall have the vote.

1868 J. E. T. Rogers Man. Polit. Econ. xiii. 169 Peasant proprietors are often heavily burdened with mortgaged debts.

1890 R. Kipling Masque of Plenty in Departm. Ditties (ed. 4) 53 His speech is of mortgaged bedding, On his kine he borrows yet.

1959 Life 20 July 4/1 (advt.) With Travelers life insurance to pay off our mortgaged home, Or take us in retirement years across the briny foam.

1991 P. Slater Dream Deferred iii. xv. 190 ‘The American Dream’..seems..to consist of owning a heavily mortgaged house..and various labor-saving appliances.

1643 J. Lightfoot Handfull Gleanings Exod. 32 Moses Law..taught Israel to expect that one..should redeeme for him morgaged heaven.

1667 R. Allestree Causes Decay Christian Piety vi. 136 Let men consider themselves..as ensnar'd in that unhappy contract which has rendered them part of the Devils possession, and contrive how they may..disentangle their Mortgag'd Souls.

1734 S.-Carolina Gaz. 20 July 3/1 Forlorn, forsaken, penny-less, and poor, As a pawnd Cully, or a mortgag'd whore.

1872 O. W. Holmes Organ-blower in Compl. Poet. Wks. (1912) 188 No priest that prays in gilded stole, To save a rich man's mortgaged soul..So humbly stoops, so meekly bows.

1971 M. G. Smith (title) The mortgaged heart.

1993 A. Elliot Turning Stones 3 Can it possibly be that God has changed the rate of payment for mortgaged souls?