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mummify, v.|ˈmʌmɪfaɪ|
[ad. F. momifier to make into mummy, f. momie mummy: see -fy.]
1. trans. To make into a mummy; to preserve (the bodies of animals) by embalming and drying. Also, to dry into the semblance of a mummy.
1628Wither Brit. Rememb. 44, I could bide Shut up untill my Flesh were Mummy-fi'd. 1794Blumenbach in Phil. Trans. LXXXIV. 185 The practice of mummifying their dead bodies. 1883Stevenson Silverado Sq. 245, I came suddenly upon his innocent body, lying mummified by the dry air and sun: a pigmy kangaroo.
2. transf. and fig.
1646J. Hall Poems 58 Thou..shalt more long remaine Still mummifi'd within the hearts of men. 1661Evelyn Fumifugium i. 13 So corrosive is this Smoake about the City, that if one would hang up Gammons of Bacon..or other Flesh to fume,..it will so Mummifie, drye up, wast and burn it that it suddainly crumbles away. 1880Sayce in Nature 26 Feb. 406 Can anything, therefore, be more absurd than an endeavour to mummify an extinct phase of pronunciation.
3. Path. Of tissues or organs: To shrivel or dry up.
1883J. Coats Man. Pathol. 750 In these cases the fœtus shrivels and becomes mummified... In the mummified fœtus the various tissues may be recognized years after. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 587 Two-thirds of the palmar surface [of the index finger] were black and mummified.
Hence ˈmummifying vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1836J. M. Gully Magendie's Formul. (ed. 2) 199 This substance might be the mummifying principle of pyroligneous acid. 1866Laing Preh. Rem. Caithn. 42 Some highly artificial modes of interment, like mummyfying or burning. |