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41Georgi Kinkladze — Personal information Full name Georgi Kinkladze …
42Asceticism in Judaism — Asceticism is a term derived from the Greek verb ἀσκέω, meaning to practise strenuously, to exercise. Athletes were therefore said to go through ascetic training, and to be ascetics.In this usage the twofold application to the mode of living and… …
43sphacelate — [sfas′ə lāt΄] vt., vi. sphacelated, sphacelating 〚< ModL sphacelatus, pp. of sphacelare, to mortify < sphacelus, gangrene < Gr sphakelos〛 to make or become gangrenous; mortify sphacelation n. * * * …
44flesh — n. 1) to mortify the flesh 2) proud flesh * * * [fleʃ] proud flesh to mortify the flesh …
45abash — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. humiliate, humble, shame; embarrass, disconcert; mortify, crush, take down a peg. See humility. Ant., hearten, rally. II (Roget s IV) v. embarrass, disconcert, rattle*; see embarrass 1 . See… …
46humble — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. lowly, unassuming, modest (see humility); poor, obscure, paltry, mean. v. t. abase, shame, humiliate. See modesty, obscurity, piety. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Meek] Syn. lowly, submissive, gentle,… …
47wound — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. injury, hurt; painfulness. v. t. injure, hurt, lame, cripple; pain; shoot, stab, cut, lacerate, tear, wing; insult, offend, gall, mortify. See deterioration, resentment. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn.… …
48mortal — [14] Mortal goes back ultimately to the Indo European base *mor , *mr ‘die’ (source also of English murder). From it were descended the Latin words mortuus ‘dead’ (source of English mortuary [14] and the 19th century American coinage mortician)… …
49mortification — (n.) late 14c., mortifying the flesh, suppression of bodily desires, from L.L. mortificationem (nom. mortificatio) a killing, putting to death, from pp. stem of mortificare (see MORTIFY (Cf. mortify)). Sense of feeling of humiliation first… …
50mortified — (adj.) deeply humiliated, 1717, pp. adjective from MORTIFY (Cf. mortify) …
