mort



all-a-mort

1. Struck dumb, insensible, or motionless with fear or confusion. His speech was full of such fire and anger that I was rendered all-a-mort for a few moments afterward.
2. In a dying or half-dead state; depressed or dejected, as in one who feels half dead. Possibly a corruption of "alamort," meaning the same, or a reference to a "mort," the sound from a hunter's horn to signal the death of an animal being hunted. I'm all-a-mort these past two days; I know not if I shall live beyond the week.

autem mort

1. obsolete A woman who is married. "Autem" is an obsolete slang word for church, and "mort" is obsolete slang for a woman or girl. Your courtship is wasted, my friend, for she is an autem mort already.
2. obsolete A beggar woman who carries about several children and affects to have great devotion to the church or religion, generally as a means of arousing sympathetic charity from others. "Autem" is an obsolete slang word for church, and "mort" is obsolete slang for a woman or girl. The autem morts with their wailing children cluster at the steps of the church for alms.
See also: autem, mort

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Victoriavik-TAWR-ee-ə (English), vik-TO-ree-ah (German)English, Spanish, Romanian, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Late Roman, Roman Mythology
Dick[dik]
Wigburg-Ancient Germanic
Ad[æd]
ValerieVAL-ə-ree (English), VAH-le-ree (German)English, German, Czech
MiinaMEE:-nahFinnish