mort-, mor-, mori- +

One who arranges and manages funerals; an undertaker who is trained to care for the dead.

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.

In a religious use, about people, their actions or occupations: "Dead to sin or the world"; having their appetites and passions in full control; ascetic.

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.
2. To make someone feel ashamed and humiliated.
3. To use self-imposed discipline, hardship, abstinence from pleasure, and especially self-inflicted pain in an attempt to conrol or put an end to desires and passions; especially, for religious purposes.

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.
2. The usually stultifying (being useless or worthless), or stifling (repressive), influence of the past on current events and living people.
3. The often oppressive influence of the past on the present.

1. Pertaining to death or funerals.
2. A place where dead bodies are kept until burial or cremation.