Defn: To grant or convey, as property, for the security of a debt, or other engagement, upon a condition that if the debt or engagement shall be discharged according to the contract, the conveyance shall be void, otherwise to become absolute, subject, however, to the right of redemption.
2. Hence: To pledge, either literally or figuratively; to make subject to a claim or obligation. Mortgaging their lives to covetise. Spenser. I myself an mortgaged to thy will. Shak.
MORTGAGEE
Mort`ga*gee", n. (Law)
Defn: The person to whom property is mortgaged, or to whom a mortgage is made or given.
MORTGAGEOR; MORTGAGOR
Mort"gage*or, Mort"ga*gor, n. (Law)
Defn: One who gives a mortgage.
Note: The letter e is required analogically after the second g in order to soften it; but the spelling mortgagor is in fact the prevailing form. When the word is contradistinguished from mortgagee it is accented on the last syllable (
MORTGAGER
Mort"ga*ger, n. (Law)
Defn: gives a mortgage.
MORTIFEROUS Mor"tif"er*ous, a. Etym: [L. mortifier; mors, mortis, death + ferre to bring: cf. F. mortifère.]