mortified
Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 3:45 pm
I was recently watching the movie, "The Name of the Rose", in which Sean Connery is a Franciscan friar, who is called upon to solve a deadly mystery in medieval times. It takes place at a Benedictine abbey, where one monk died, but before you know it, monks are dropping like flies. It's not bad, as films go, but I'm partial to Connery myself.
There is one monk who regularly and repeatedly whips his own back with a homemade torture device and gets perverse pleasure from the exercise. Except for the perversion, I've become aware that this is called 'mortification'. Of course, I've looked up the word for myself, but I think this presents a problem for me.
I've always said things like, "If I were pulled over by the Highway Patrol, mortified could not touch the half of it!" "I'd be mortified if I split my trousers like Sally just did!" "To be trusted with a solo in the church Choir, I'd then be terribly mortified to sound like a frog in heat!"
What I'd like to see is a Dr. Goodword article on the word mortified, or mortify, if that is his preference. I'd like to see all of the angles to this 'good' word from our 'good' Doc.
Thanks for all your 'good' work,
Sardith
There is one monk who regularly and repeatedly whips his own back with a homemade torture device and gets perverse pleasure from the exercise. Except for the perversion, I've become aware that this is called 'mortification'. Of course, I've looked up the word for myself, but I think this presents a problem for me.
I've always said things like, "If I were pulled over by the Highway Patrol, mortified could not touch the half of it!" "I'd be mortified if I split my trousers like Sally just did!" "To be trusted with a solo in the church Choir, I'd then be terribly mortified to sound like a frog in heat!"
What I'd like to see is a Dr. Goodword article on the word mortified, or mortify, if that is his preference. I'd like to see all of the angles to this 'good' word from our 'good' Doc.
Thanks for all your 'good' work,
Sardith