mortify
动词 v.
英 /ˈmɔːtɪfaɪ/
美 /ˈmoɹtɪfaɪ/
英文释义
动词 v.
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To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
— Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body.
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To injure the dignity of; to embarrass; to humiliate.
— I was so mortified I could have died right there; instead I fainted, but I swore I'd never let that happen to me again.
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To kill.
— The second Spring after transplanting, purge them of all superfluous shoots and scions, reserving only the most towardly for the future stem; this to be done yearly, as long as they continue in the nursery; and if of the principal stem so left, the frost mortifie any part, cut it off [...]
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To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
— Soothly, the gode werkes, that he dide biforn that he fil in sinne, been al mortified and astoned and dulled by the ofte sinning.
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To affect with vexation or chagrin.
— He seemed to enjoy mortifying them with news of every fresh hell loosed in the capital.
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To scare.
— Near-synonym: petrify
- To humble; to depress.
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To grant in mortmain.
— the schoolmasters of Ayr were paid out of the mills mortified by Queen Mary
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To lose vitality.
— [...] Tis a pure ill-natur'd ſatisfaction to ſee one that was a beauty unfortunately move with the ſame languor, and ſoftneſs of behaviour, that once was charming in her—To ſee, I ſay, her mortify that us'd to kill [...]
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To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
— Servius the Grammarian being troubled with the gowt, found no better meanes to be rid of it, than to apply poison to mortifie [translating tuer] his legs.
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To gangrene.
— For the inducing of putrefaction, it were good to try it with flesh or fish exposed to the moonbeams; and again exposed to the air when the moon shineth not, for the like time: to see whether will corrupt sooner: and try it also with capon, or some other fowl, laid abroad, to see whether it will mortify and become tender sooner; try it also with dead flies, or dead worms, having a little water cast upon them, to see whether will putrefy sooner.
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To be subdued.
— Trying to be kind and honest will require all his thoughts; a mortified appetite is never a wise companion; in so far as he has had to mortify an appetite, he will still be the worse man; and of such an one a great deal of cheerfulness will be required in judging life, and a great deal of humility in judging others.
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From Anglo-Norman mortifier, Middle French mortifier, from Late Latin mortificō (“cause death”), from Latin mors (“death”) + -ficō (“-fy”).
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