See mortify on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1767, Walter Harte, Eulogius: Or, The Charitable Mason:",
"text": "With fasting mortify'd, worn out with tears.",
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"ref": "1688, Matthew Prior, An Ode:",
"text": "Mortify thy learned lust.",
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"text": "Mortify, therefore, your members which are upon the earth.",
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"text": "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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"ref": "1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:",
"text": "Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.",
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"ref": "1664, John Evelyn, “Of the Mulberry”, in Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber; republished as Sylva: Or A Discourse of Forest Trees, volume 1, London: Arthur Doubleday, 1908, page 205:",
"text": "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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"ref": "c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Persones Tale; republished as The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900, page 580:",
"text": "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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"ref": "1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:",
"text": "Quicksilver is mortified with turpentine.",
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"ref": "1627, G[eorge] H[akewill], An Apologie of the Power and Prouidence of God in the Gouernment of the World. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Iohn Lichfield and William Turner, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "He […]mortified them [pearls] in vineger aud drunke them vp",
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"word": "weaken"
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"ref": "1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 3, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:",
"text": "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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"word": "rankle"
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"word": "rot"
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"word": "sphacelate"
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"text": "22 September 1651 (date in diary), 1818 (first published), John Evelyn, John Evelyn's Diary\nthe news of the fatal battle of Worcester, which exceedingly mortified our expectations"
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"ref": "1712 January 4 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “MONDAY, December 24, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 257; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:",
"text": "How often is [the ambitious man] mortified with the very praises he receives, if they do not rise so high as he thinks they ought!",
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"ref": "1876 James Grant, History of the Burgh and Parish Schools of Scotland, Part II, Chapter 14, p.453 (PDF 2.7 MB)",
"text": "the schoolmasters of Ayr were paid out of the mills mortified by Queen Mary"
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"ref": "1768, Richard Steele, “Act III. Scene I.”, in The Funeral: or, Grief à-la-Mode. A Comedy, Edinburgh: Martin & Wotherspoon, page 47:",
"text": "[...] 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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"ref": "1627, Francis Bacon, “Century IX”, in Sylva Sylvarum, or Natural History; republished as The works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, volume 2, Philadelphia: A. Hart, 1852, page 123:",
"text": "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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"(intransitive) To gangrene."
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"ref": "1900, Robert Louis Stevenson, A Christmas Sermon:",
"text": "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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"word": "subside"
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{
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "potǎpkvam",
"sense": "to discipline by suppressing desires",
"word": "потъпквам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "potušavam",
"sense": "to discipline by suppressing desires",
"word": "потушавам"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to discipline by suppressing desires",
"word": "onderdrukken"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to discipline by suppressing desires",
"word": "mortifier"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to discipline by suppressing desires",
"word": "macérer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to discipline by suppressing desires",
"word": "abtöten"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kugyō suru",
"sense": "to discipline by suppressing desires",
"word": "苦行する"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to discipline by suppressing desires",
"tags": [
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"word": "mācerō"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to discipline by suppressing desires",
"word": "mortificar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to discipline by suppressing desires",
"word": "späka"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "unižavam",
"sense": "to injure one's dignity",
"word": "унижавам"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kutsujoku wo ataeru",
"sense": "to injure one's dignity",
"word": "屈辱を与える"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hazukashimeru",
"sense": "to injure one's dignity",
"word": "辱める"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to injure one's dignity",
"word": "mortificar"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "umǎrtvjavam",
"sense": "to kill",
"word": "умъртвявам"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to kill",
"word": "tuer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to kill",
"word": "töten"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to kill",
"word": "abtöten"
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{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "korosu",
"sense": "to kill",
"word": "殺す"
},
{
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"sense": "to kill",
"word": "matar"
}
],
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