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MOR'TIFY, L. mors, death, and facio, to make.
1. To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of some part of a living animal to change to sphacelus or gangrene. Extreme inflammation speedily mortifies flesh.
2. To subdue or bring into subjection, as the bodily appetites by abstinence or rigorous severities.
We mortify ourselves with fish.
With fasting mortified, worn out with tears.
3. To subdue to abase to humble to reduce to restrain as inordinate passions.
Mortify thy learned lust.
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth. Colossians 3
4. To humble to depress to affect with slight vexation.
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.
He is controlled by a nod, mortified by a frown, and transported with a smile.
5. To destroy active powers or essential qualities.
He mortified pearls in vinegar--
Quicksilver--mortified with turpentine.
I believe this application is not now in use.
MOR'TIFY, To lose vital heat and action and suffer the dissolution of organic texture, as flesh to corrupt or gangrene.
1. To be subdued.
2. To practice severities and penance from religious motives.
This makes him give alms of all that he hath, watch, fast and mortify.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Mortify'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/m/mortify.html.
Entry for 'Mortify'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/m/mortify.html.
