mortifIcation

[Fr., from mortifier =to mortify (q. v.); Sp. mortific a cion; Ital. mortific a zione.] I. Ordinary Language : Rankle and fester, and gangrene, To black mortification ." 174 2769 2. The act or practice of subduing the pa ions and appetites by abstinence, penance, or self-inflicted pain. 3. An act of austerity; abstinence, penance. "Whatever mortification John practised himself, it does not appear that he prescribed anything to others."-Por. teus: Lectures, vol. 1., lect. 3. 4. Humiliation, disappointment, vexation, chagrin; the state of being mortified or vexed by disappointments or vexation. 5. That which mortifies or causes disappointment, chagrin, or vexation. II. Technically : mortpay II. Pathol . & Physiol . ( Of a portion of the body ): To lose vitality; to decay, and, unle the morbid proce can be arrested, to die. [MORTIFICATION, 11,2.] "Like the application of remedies to an insensible or mortified part. rt." - Goldsmith : On Polite Learning, ch. viii. mor-ti-fy-ing, pr . par ., a. & s. [MORTIFY.] A. As pr. par .: (See the verb.) B. As adjective : 1. Becoming mortified or gangrened. 2. Humiliating, vexing; causing chagrin and vexation. "It is indeed a reflection somewhat mortifying to the *1. Chem. & Metall.: The destruction of active author." -Goldsmith: On Polite Learning, ch. x. properties. "Inquire what gives impediment to union or restitution, which is called mortification; as when quicksilver is mortified with turpentine."- Bacon. 2. Pathol . & Physiol . The complete death of part of the body. It is generally the result of acute inflammation, but may be also an idiopathic disease. When the proce of decay commences, if slight, it may terminate: (1) By resolution; (2) by adhe sion; (3) by ulceration; or (4), as it most commonly does, by the death of the part. To this proce the names of mortification, gangrene, and sphacelus have been indifferently applied, but Dr. Thomson proposed to apply the term gangrene to that stage of mortification which precedes the death of a part, and sphacelus to the death itself. [GANGRENE, SPHACELUS.] 3. Scots Law : (1) The disposition of lands for religious or char itable purposes. (2) A term applied to lands given formerly to the church for religious purposes, or, since the Reformation, for charitable or public purposes. By the present practice, when lands are given for any charitable purpose they are usually disposed to trustees, to be held either in blanch or feu. [MORT MAIN.] (3) A charitable fund or institution obtained from the yearly revenue of such lands. "There is another vacancy (for a male) on this mort i . A cation." -Aberdeen Free Pre , Mar. 9, 1885. *mor-ti-fie, v. t . [MORTIFY.] mor'-ti-fied, *mor-ti-fyed, pa. par. or a. [MOR TIFY.] *mor'-ti-fied-ne , s . [Eng. mortified ; -ne .] The quality or state of being mortified; subjection of the pa ions and appetites; mortification. "No way suitable to that Christian simplicity, mort i . Redne which those times required."- Bp . Taylor: Artificial Handsomene , p. 114.