单词 | mortificate |
释义 | † mortificateadj.n. Obsolete. A. adj. 1. Killed, slain; dead. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > [adjective] > killed slaina1225 mortificatea1425 killedc1440 murderedc1450 amortizeda1626 unlived1626 fallen1871 outed1919 zapped1962 a1425 (a1400) Northern Pauline Epist. (1916) 2 Cor. vi. 9 (MED) Ut castigati: et non mortificati..as þey þat ar chastysed and not mortificate. a1538 W. Holme Fall & Euill Successe Rebellion (1572) sig. B.ij O dolorous fortune and fatall miserie, For multitude of people was there mortificate. 1568 (a1500) Colkelbie Sow iii. 67 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 306 Lyk o sede sawin in erd mortificat Flouris money fructis vinificat. 2. Alchemy. Of a metal: chemically altered, e.g. dissolved in acid. Cf. mortification n. 6. ΚΠ a1550 ( G. Ripley Compend of Alchemy (Bodl. e Mus.) f. 46v (MED) Our tode of the erth which eateth his fill, Some nameth it by which is mortificate, The spirit with venum intoxicate. B. n. Perhaps: a person who causes mortification, a mortifier. ΚΠ 1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 67 No Prince or prelate liuing can escape their [sc. the Jesuits'] tongs, pens, yea nor fists (if it comes to banding) vntill these mortificats haue their wils, nothing being well done, nor any gouerment well managed without their direction. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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