mortificated

comparative more mortificated · superlative most mortificated

1. ScotlandespeciallyinformalnonstandardrareMortified (acutely embarrassed).

   Mebbe ye think it’s funny, b’t I don’t. I wor thot mortificated I know I wor black in me face wid blushin’.

   1903, Charles Townsend, “Mahoney’s Day Off”, in The Mahoney Million, New York, N.Y.: New Amsterdam Book Company, →OCLC, page 55

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   I don’t remember such a stir in Oxton not since the Queen come and took tea unexpected with Mrs. Umphries in Oxton Street, and which they come and photygraphed^([sic]) for the papers. Only there was some mistake made by the young fellow as worked the machine, and instead of Mrs. Umphries being photygraphed, Mrs. Raggett next door was took instead, and Mrs. Umphries was in bed for a week afterwards, she was that mortificated.

   1923, Compton Mackenzie, “Whose Sins”, in The Parson’s Progress, London; […]: Cassell and Company, →OCLC, pages 172–173

   Well, one night in the ‘Anchor’ he makes the revenue officer beside hisself with rage and mortification. In fact I never seed a man more mortificated than Hodson.

   1926, Athol Forbes, “Nat Vincent—Smuggler”, in Ernest Rhys, C[atherine] A[my] Dawson-Scott, editors, 28 Humorous Stories Old and New […], New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 137

   And there was my garter laying^([sic]) just in front of the Table and my face getting as red as Parson Carrick’s with shame. I tell you, it’s a wonder I didn’t give Sam a good shove and walk right out of the church by myself, I was so mortificated.

   1934, Compton Mackenzie, “Now Fades”, in The Darkening Green, London: Robert Hale & Company, published 1973, →ISBN, page 318

   That was jist ONE disappointment. I was heartbroken at Braemar when I wasn’t selected to dance before the Royal Family. Ye can guess who was picked – Morag McSwain. I was jist her understudy. Oh, I was mortificated!

   1986, Stanley Baxter with Alex Mitchell, “The dancers”, in Stanley Baxter’s Bedside Book of Glasgow Humour, London: Constable, →ISBN, page 48

   Pol had wittered on endlessly about her mother’s search for Uncle Donald, about the poor woman working in the Skipton mills because the trade name had matched that of her erstwhile lover. ‘She was mortificated to hear that he was dead,’ Pol had said.

   1993, Ruth Hamilton, chapter 17, in Spinning Jenny, London: Corgi Books, →ISBN, page 442

2. ScotlandespeciallynonstandardrareMortified (having undergone mortification).

   ‘Havven I caught id [death] already?’ panted Hosannah. ‘I’m dyin’ be degrees since I wus born, I’m only haf-alive and whole mortificated’.

   1987, John Broderick, “Part Two: June 1933”, in The Flood: A Novel, London: Marion Boyars Publishers, →ISBN, page 107

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   The treatment of this terrific swelling variated generally in cutting or burning out the black mortificated spot and applying upon the wound a strong solution of carbolic acid or any other known disinfectant, accordingly to the wish of the physician or surgeon to whom the patient applied for help.

   1891 June, M. Levin, “Anthrax Maligna”, in J. J. Lawrence, editor, The Medical Brief, […], volume XIX, number 6, St. Louis, Mo.: Owens Printing Co., →OCLC, page 603, column 1

   In entering the realm of truth, the empirical work is burnt, but the highest luminosity of its form must amount to the mystical life of the work in the circle of ideas. It is only the fragmented or ‘mortificated’ work that is salvaged, but if it is indeed salvaged, idea and work are no absolute opposites, just as, according to Benjamin’s thesis, Schlegel implies when considering the idea (of art) a work.

   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

   ‘I see cake,’ Tom said. ‘I see fruit cake in a wax-cloth shroud.’ / ‘Yes, because it’s dead.’ Effie pounded the fruit cake on the edge of the table. ‘Dead and mortificated.’

   2005, Jessica Stirling [pseudonym; Hugh Crauford Rae], chapter 3, in One True Love, London: Hodder, →ISBN, pages 39–40

1. Scotlandespeciallynonstandardparticiplepastraresimple past and past participle of mortificate