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mortifier|ˈmɔːtɪfaɪə(r)|
[f. mortify v. + -er1.]
One who or that which mortifies. †a. One who practises mortification; an ascetic (obs.). b. One who or a thing which causes mortification (in various senses). c. Scots Law (see mortify v. 5).
a.1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. i. Disc. ii. 76 The Sarabaites..were stricter mortifiers than the religious in families and Colledges. 1756W. Dodd Fasting (ed. 2) 9 The daily fast of great mortifiers.
b.1658Pitman & Batt Truth Vind. 5 None can know him a Justifier, but they who know him a Sanctifier and a Mortifier. 1712Steele Spect. No. 450 ⁋6 The Love of Business and Money is the greatest Mortifier of inordinate Desires imaginable. 1801Lamb John Woodvil iii, I want..Some strokes of the old mortifier Calamity, To take these swellings down. 1841Hor. Smith Moneyed Man III. iv. 104 How sweet it is when a fallen man can thus mortify his intended mortifiers!
c.1655in Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) App. 38/2 Quhich by the will of the mortifiers comes not to be payable untill [etc.]. 1820J. Cleland Rise & Progr. Glasgow 222 A preference is to be given to the mortifier's relatives. |