mortificate

present singular third person mortificates · participle present mortificating · participle past mortificated · past mortificated

1. nonstandardraretransitiveTo mortify.

   No. It wasn't. Period. Mortificate thyself and repent, Elizabeth.

   1994 March 20, <-Inquisitor->, “New Tourist Attraction, or, "When in Rome..."”, in alt.sex.bondage (Usenet)

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   Does it count if my flesh has already been rigger^([sic]) mortificated [1]? [1] Blue is my favorite colo[u]r.

   1999 April 30, Dan Nitschke, “Farnborough Motorcycle City Staff”, in uk.rec.motorcycles (Usenet)

   The positivists, however, could learn from this how far they have advanced with their science: their note taking would be limited in principle to the postnarcotic period. It would be the utterance of a life which had forgotten itself under the influence of narcotics, or rather of death, from which one can remember nothing. They would, in their thing-language, have “mortificated” it. Reality would be left to metaphysics and to antiquated French physiologists.

   2002, Edmund Jephcott, “[Notes] Notes and Sketches”, in Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, translated by Edmund Jephcott, edited by Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Cultural Memory in the Present), Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, note 19, page 175

   Works which can ‘absterben’ or ‘wither’ must be alive. More importantly, their life must somehow persist during their critical mortification, for one cannot render dead or ‘mortificate’ what is dead already.

   2002, Margarete Kohlenbach, “Historical self-reflection”, in Walter Benjamin: Self-Reference and Religiosity (New Perspectives in German Studies), Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, chapter 3 (History and Technik), section 2 (Mortification), page 140

   you'd like to put yer leg end inna hedgepig wass bin mortificated for a fortnight then?

   2002 February 16, Eclipse 硎熔, “Hello, is there anybody in there?”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet)

   The juxtaposition of the bawdy, cuckold stage humor with the entrance of the mortificating supplicants and the monk's bitter diatribe in The Seventh Seal.

   2004 February 8, Ellen Dossey [signed Mike], “Movie Moments”, in alt.music.rush (Usenet)