Mortification - meaning?

[kerryb]

Hi

Received a death certificate today and the cause of death was mortification!!

Does anybody know what that was?

Kerry

[Biker]

Hi kerry

Think this will help http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/English/EnglishM.htm

Regards
Biker

[PaulaToo]

Snap Biker, just going to post that myself

[kerryb]

Poor woman!!!!!! She was 91!

Thanks for the link, I have bookmarked it, I thought I had it already but must have deleted it somewhere along the line!!

Kerry

[bervonian]

According to Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary it means gangrene.

Bervonian.

[kerryb]

Bervonian

I have suddenly gone off my Bacon sandwich.  Thank you

Kerry

[bervonian]

Sorry to spoil your hammy sandwich.  Just to spoil it further, gangrene is defined as the first stage of mortification.  Bon appetit.   

Bervonian.

[Berlin-Bob]

mor·ti·fy Pronunciation (môrt-f)
v. mor·ti·fied, mor·ti·fy·ing, mor·ti·fies
v.tr.
1. To cause to experience shame, humiliation, or wounded pride; humiliate.
2. To discipline (one's body and physical appetites) by self-denial or self-inflicted privation.
v.intr.
1. To practice ascetic discipline or self-denial of the body and its appetites.
2. Pathology To undergo mortification; become gangrenous or necrosed.
[Middle English mortifien, to deaden, subdue, from Old French mortifier, from Latin mortificre, to kill : mors, mort-, death; see mer- in

from http://www.thefreedictionary.com/mortified

I was wondering about this because I know the phrase "I was mortified" or
"I could have died of mortification. 
I think they both come from the first definition.

The death cert. version is obviously from the second definition

Bob

[Lydart]

Wish I hadn't clicked on the link ... did you read the other bits too, apart from mortification ? 

I feel slightly unwell all of a sudden ...