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To practice penance from religious
motives; to deaden desires by religious discipline.

This makes him . . . give alms of all that he hath,
watch, fast, and mortify.

Law.

3. To be subdued; to decay, as appetites,
desires, etc.

Mor"ti*fy`ing (?), a.
1. Tending to mortify; affected by, or having
symptoms of, mortification; as, a mortifying wound;
mortifying flesh.

2. Subduing the appetites, desires, etc.; as,
mortifying penances.

3. Tending to humble or abase; humiliating;
as, a mortifying repulse.

Mor"ti*fy`ing*ly, adv. In a
mortifying manner.

Mor"tise (?), n. [F. mortaise;
cf. Sp. mortaja, Ar. murtazz fixed, or W.
mortais, Ir. mortis, moirtis, Gael.
moirteis.] 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.

Mortise and tenon (Carp.

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