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into subjection; to abase; to humble. With fasting mortified, worn out with tears. Harte. Mortify thy learned lust. Prior. Mortify, rherefore, your members which are upon the earth. Col. iii. 5.

Tending to mortify; affected by, or having symptoms of, mortification; as, a mortifying wound; mortifying flesh.

In a mortifying manner.

To excite ill-humor in; to vex; to mortify; as, he was not a little chagrined.

To destroy the power or ruling influence of; to subdue completely; to mortify. They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh, with the affections and lusts. Gal. v. 24.

To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money. You are fooled, discarded, and shook off By him for whom these shames ye underwent. Shak. To fool away, to get rid of foolishly; to spend in trifles, idleness, fol…

Spenser. -- To go against the grain of (a person), to be repugnant to; to vex, irritate, mortify, or trouble.

To reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes, or in the eyes of others; to humble; to mortify. We stand humiliated rather than encouraged. M. Arnold.

Failure to mortify the passions. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

To subdue the appetites of by poor and scanty diet; to mortify. Baker.

The act of mortifying, or the condition of being mortified; especially:

of Mortify.

To die, decay, or become gangrenous, as flesh or bone; to mortify.

To castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tightly with a string, so that they mortify and slough off. [Prov. Eng.]