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 "Autem" is an obsolete slang word for church, and "mort" is obsolete slang for a woman or girl.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 "Autem" is an obsolete slang word for church, and "mort" is obsolete slang for a woman or girl.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
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • all-a-mort
  • strike (someone) dumb
  • be struck dumb
  • zorked
  • zorked (out)
  • zunked
  • dumb
  • out cold
  • out for the count
  • out like a light
References in periodicals archive
Mort ate the bagel two hours before she was admitted to New Castle's Jameson Hospital, where her daughter, Isabella, was born on April 27.
Poppy seed peril: eat a bagel, lose your baby
Several slapstick moments are laugh-out-loud funny, especially when delivered in Mort's deadpan voice.
Gumshoe Rock
Son rapport 2018, presente mercredi a Rabat, indique que la condamnation a mort est resolument en recul, et que des mesures sont prises partout dans le monde pour mettre fin a ce chatiment.
Peine de mort: Amnesty saisit a nouveau le chef du gouvernement
Et le voir designe aussi le sang du debut des regles, un epanchement de sang mort affecte de deception lorsque la grossesse est souhaitee, ou de soulagement dans le cas d'une grossesse non desiree.
LE SANG DE LA MORT DE LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE
Le professeur Uu la facultUu[c] des sciences de lae1/4aoinformation et de la communication (UniversitUu[c] dae1/4aoAlger 3), Redouane Boudjema a mis en exergue la relation entre lae1/4aoinformation liUu[c]e Uu la peine de mort et lae1/4aoUu[c]thique journalistique.
Condamnations a la peine de mort:Une baisse de plus de 50% entre 2015 et 2017
For its efforts to provide insight into Hemingway's life, Hemingway at War leans heavily on Carlos Baker, whose research was conducted fifty years ago; in fact, Mort's portrait of Hemingway is derived from the biographies of Baker, Michael Reynolds, and Scott Donaldson.
Hemingway at War: Ernest Hemingway's Adventures as a World War II Correspondent
Mort's active and productive life closed 13 June 2017, at age 97.
Enough to Go all Around: Morton Teicher, 1920-2017
"I asked [Fields] if I could take [Brittney and Tina's] case because I am passionate about housing rights," Mort said.
Pro bono attorney prevents wrongful eviction of mother and daughter
Synopsis: Baseball big-leaguer Mort Hart, trapped between an insane Al Capone and a vengeful Ty Cobb must use his wits to save his skin and the skin of the woman he loves, Charlene, Cobb's wife.
Capone, the Cobbs, and Me
John MacCrone, 26, was airlifted to the Queen Elizabeth hospital in Glasgow but Andy Mort, 47, died at the scene yesterday.
Co-driver is killed in rally horror crash
In "Capone, The Cobbs, And Me", author Rex Burwell takes the reader back to the Roaring 20s, an era when baseball big-leaguer Mort hart is suspected of knowing too much by the infamous Al Capone who tries to kill him.
Capone, The Cobbs, And Me