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mortificate

mortificate verb: to mortify.

Verb

mortificate (third-person singular simple present mortificates, present participle mortificating, simple past and past participle mortificated)

  1. (nonstandard, rare, transitive) To mortify.
    • No. It wasn't. Period. Mortificate thyself and repent, Elizabeth.1994 March 20, <-Inquisitor->, “New Tourist Attraction, or, "When in Rome..."”, in alt.sex.bondage (Usenet)
    • Does it count if my flesh has already been rigger^([sic]) mortificated [1]? [1] Blue is my favorite colo[u]r.1999 April 30, Dan Nitschke, “Farnborough Motorcycle City Staff”, in uk.rec.motorcycles (Usenet)

Examples of mortificate in a sentence

  • They would, in their thing-language, have “mortificated” it.2002, Edmund Jephcott, “[Notes] Notes and Sketches”, in Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, translated by Edmund Jephcott, edited by...
  • More importantly, their life must somehow persist during their critical mortification, for one cannot render dead or ‘mortificate’ what is dead already.2002, Margarete Kohlenbach, “Historical self-reflection”, in Walter Benjamin: Self-Reference and Religiosity (New Perspectives in German...
  • you'd like to put yer leg end inna hedgepig wass bin mortificated for a fortnight then?2002 February 16, Eclipse 硎熔, “Hello, is there anybody in there?”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet):
  • Most of them are however not mortificated by the train but by the overhead line equipment carrying 25 000 voltses.^([sic])2004 October 9, Ichimusai, “York sheddies?”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet):

Forms of mortificate

third-person singular presentmortificates
present participlemortificating
past participlemortificated
pastmortificated

Origin of mortificate

Back-formation from mortification.

Questions about mortificate

What does mortificate mean?
Mortificate means to mortify.
How do you use mortificate in a sentence?
They would, in their thing-language, have “mortificated” it.
What part of speech is mortificate?
Mortificate is a verb.
What is the past tense of mortificate?
The past tense of mortificate is mortificated.

Words near mortificate in the dictionary

  1. mortierellaceous
  2. mortiers
  3. mortiferous
  4. mortiferously
  5. mortiferousness
  6. mortificate
  7. mortificated
  8. mortificates
  9. mortificating
  10. mortification
  11. mortification root

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