Vocabulary : Mortifier to Mortmal
Mortifier : One who, or that which, mortifies.Mortify : To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in. ;; To destroy the active powers or essential qualities of; to change by chemical action. ;; To deaden by religious or other discipline, as the carnal affections, bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into subjection; to abase; to humble. ;; To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress. ;; To lose vitality and organic structure, as flesh of a living body; to gangrene. ;; To practice penance from religious motives; to deaden desires by religious discipline. ;; To be subdued; to decay, as appetites, desires, etc.
Mortifying : of Mortify ;; Tending to mortify; affected by, or having symptoms of, mortification; as, a mortifying wound; mortifying flesh. ;; Subduing the appetites, desires, etc.; as, mortifying penances. ;; Tending to humble or abase; humiliating; as, a mortifying repulse.
Mortifyingly : In a mortifying manner.
Mortise : A cavity cut into a piece of timber, or other material, to receive something (as the end of another piece) made to fit it, and called a tenon. ;; To cut or make a mortisein. ;; To join or fasten by a tenon and mortise; as, to mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder.
