amort

From Middle French à la mort (“to the death”) reinterpreted as all amort.

amort

1. (archaic, literary) As if dead; depressed

   Synonyms: lifeless, spiritless, dejected

   • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :

     How fares my Kate? What, sweeting, all amort?

   • c. 1590 (date written), G[eorge] P[eele], The Old Wiues Tale. , London: Iohn Danter, for Raph Hancocke, and Iohn Hardie, , published 1595, →OCLC, [lines 3-5]:

     How nowe fellowe Franticke, what all a mort? Doth this sadnes become thy madnes?

   • 1737, Susanna Centlivre, The Perjur’d Husband‎, London: W. Feales, act IV, scene 2, page 56:

     What, all amort, Signior, no Courage left?

   • 1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, , published 1820, →OCLC, stanza VIII, page 87:

     The hallow'd hour was near at hand: she sighs / Amid the timbrels, and the throng'd resort / Of whisperers in anger, or in sport; / 'Mid looks of love, defiance, hate, and scorn, / Hoodwink'd with faery fancy; all amort, / Save to St. Agnes and her lambs unshorn, / And all the bliss to be before to-morrow morn.

   • 1890, Francis Saltus Saltus, “The Harem”, in Shadows and Ideals‎, Buffalo: Charles Wells Moulton, page 338:

     Here repose houris, dreamlike fair;
     Eyes half amort by amorous care;
     Marvels of flesh, wonders of hair!

• torma, morat, Torma, Mator, Toram, Morta