Mortify vs Ascetic - What's the difference?
mortify | ascetic |
(obsolete) To kill.
(obsolete) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
* Francis Bacon
* Hakewill
(obsolete) To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
*, II.3:
*:Servius the Grammarian being troubled with the gowt, found no better meanes to be rid of it, than to apply poison to mortifie his legs.
To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
* Harte
* Prior
* Bible, Col. iii. 5
(usually, used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate.
*
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(obsolete) To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
* Evelyn
* Addison
(Scotland, legal, historical) To grant in mortmain
* 1876 James Grant, History of the Burgh and Parish Schools of Scotland , Part II, Chapter 14, p.453 (
Of or relating to ascetics; characterized by rigorous self-denial or self-discipline; austere; abstinent; involving a withholding of physical pleasure.
* Sir Walter Scott
One who is devoted to the practice of self-denial, either through seclusion or stringent abstinence.
As a verb mortify
is (obsolete|transitive) to kill.As an adjective ascetic is
of or relating to ascetics; characterized by rigorous self-denial or self-discipline; austere; abstinent; involving a withholding of physical pleasure.As a noun ascetic is
one who is devoted to the practice of self-denial, either through seclusion or stringent abstinence.mortify
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Verb
(en-verb)- Quicksilver is mortified with turpentine.
- He mortified pearls in vinegar.
- Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body.
- With fasting mortified , worn out with tears.
- Mortify thy learned lust.
- Mortify , therefore, your members which are upon the earth.
- I was so mortified I could have died right there, instead I fainted, but I swore I'd never let that happen to me again.
- the news of the fatal battle of Worcester, which exceedingly mortified our expectations
- 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!
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- the schoolmasters of Ayr were paid out of the mills mortified by Queen Mary
ascetic
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(wikipedia ascetic)Alternative forms
* ascetick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- The stern ascetic rigor of the Temple discipline.