Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for MOR'TI-FY
MOR'TI-FY, v.i.
- To lose vitality, as flesh; to gangrene.
- To be subdued. Johnson.
- To practice severities and penance from religious motives. This makes him gives alms of all that he hath, watch, fast, and mortify. Law.
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