mortify
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詞源[編輯]
源自盎格魯-諾曼語 mortifier、中古法語 mortifier，源自晚期拉丁語 mortificō (「使...死亡」)，源自拉丁語 mors (「死亡」) + -ficō (「化」)。
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動詞[編輯]
mortify (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 mortifies，現在分詞 mortifying，一般過去時及過去分詞 mortified)
- (及物) 使...節制，使...節慾 （身體、食慾等） （自15世紀）
- Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body.
- 一些人為了追求成為聖人而節慾。
- 1767, Walter Harte, Eulogius: Or, The Charitable Mason:
- With fasting mortify'd, worn out with tears.
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- 1688, Matthew Prior, An Ode:
- Mortify thy learned lust.
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- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Colossians 3:5:
- Mortify, therefore, your members which are upon the earth.
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- (及物，一般用被動態) 使...窘迫，使...難堪，使...屈辱，使...丟人，羞辱 （自17世紀）
- 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.
- 我在那都快要丟人死了，然後我昏倒了，但是我發誓我絕對不會讓這種事有第二次。
- 1897年 12月（標示為1898年）, Winston Churchill, 章號 5, 出自 The Celebrity: An Episode, 紐約: The Macmillan Company；倫敦：Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.
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- (棄用，及物) 殺害 （14-17世紀）
- (棄用，及物) 扼殺，廢止 （14-18世紀）
- 1631, Francis [Bacon], 「(please specify |century=I to X)」, 出自 Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd版, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- Quicksilver is mortified with turpentine.
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- (棄用，及物) 使...壞死 （活體組織等） （15-18世紀）
- (棄用，及物) 使...沮喪，使...懊惱，煩擾
- 22 September 1651 (date in diary), 1818 (first published), John Evelyn, John Evelyn's Diary
- the news of the fatal battle of Worcester, which exceedingly mortified our expectations
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- 22 September 1651 (date in diary), 1818 (first published), John Evelyn, John Evelyn's Diary
- (及物，蘇格蘭法律，歷史) 在社團土地所有權下授予
- 1876 James Grant, History of the Burgh and Parish Schools of Scotland, Part II, Chapter 14, p.453 (PDF 2.7 MB):
- the schoolmasters of Ayr were paid out of the mills mortified by Queen Mary
- 1876 James Grant, History of the Burgh and Parish Schools of Scotland, Part II, Chapter 14, p.453 (PDF 2.7 MB):
- (不及物) 失去活力
- (不及物) 壞死，生壞疽，變成壞疽
- (不及物) 被壓制