mort-, mor-, mori-, morti- +

1. An organization that lends money to a borrower with a mortgage agreement (pledged as security for a debt).
2. A person who mortgages his/her property to another person as security for a loan.

Someone who arranges and manages funerals; an undertaker who is trained to care of the dead: Jim's uncle is a mortician whose business is to be responsible for burials and cremations of those who have died. © ALL rights are reserved.

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A dead person; especially, someone who died recently.

Bringing or producing death; deadly, a cause of death.

Death-producing; deadly.

1. The death of a part of the body while the rest is living; gangrene, necrosis.
2. In religious use, the action of mortifying the flesh or its lusts. The subjection of one146;s appetites and passions by the practice of austere living, especially by the self-infliction of bodily pain or discomfort.
3. Something that causes a feeling of shame and humiliation caused by a disappointment, a rebuff or slight, or an untoward accident; the sense of disappointment or vexation.

Acutely or terribly embarrassed: Mary was completely humiliated and mortified when her skirt fell down during class! © ALL rights are reserved.

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1. A reference to being humiliates or shames, as by injury to one's pride or self-respect.
2. Characterized by the subjugation of the body, passions, etc. with abstinence, ascetic discipline, or self-inflicted suffering.

Someone who, or that which, mortifies; or the practice of ascetic self-discipline.

1. To decay and to die: The flesh on Jim's leg had mortified because it was affected by necrosis after his terrible accident.
2. To make someone feel ashamed and humiliated either on purpose or by accident: After Tom went to the barber shop and got his hair died green, he mortified his mother when he went to visit her at work!
3. To use self-imposed discipline, hardship, abstinence from pleasure: Self-inflicted pain is used to mortify an attempt to control or to put an end to one's desires and passions; especially, for religious purposes. © ALL rights are reserved.

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In a mortifying manner or the subjugation of the body, passions, etc., with abstinence, ascetic discipline, or self-inflicted suffering.

“Still-birth” or the death of a baby at birth.

Because of death.

A legal expression that also means, "in prospect of death" and is used to describe a decision made in anticipation of one's death. This phrase is seen in old wills.

Seemingly or apparently dead.

1. The perpetual, nontransferable, and non-salable ownership of property by organizations; such as, churches: The land held by the place of worship was kept by mortmain, never to be passed on or sold to companies or people.
2. The often oppressive influence of the past on the present: Some people have lived through very disturbing and stressful conditions as children; for example, a divorce in the family or having both parents being unemployed, having debts with no money in the bank, and various other kinds of mortmains that have impacted their way of living as adults.
3. Etymology: from Latin mortua manus; literally "dead hand"; from mors, "dead" + mamus, "hand"..