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There was the strange commercial released by his loyal sponsor Nike, in which a rigor mortised Mr. Woods received counsel from the disembodied voice of his late father, Earl.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2010

Smoothly mortised and joined by Director Ted Tetzlaff and Producer Frederic Ullman Jr., The Window emerges as a fast little thriller full of grade A qualities.

From Time Magazine Archive

The bed upon which the timber is placed to be mortised is gibbed to a sliding frame, which allows it to be set to any position, with the chisel straight or at an angle.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

Each of these sills is mortised into each of three cross-beams, of which one is at the right side of the shaft, the second at the left, and the third in the middle.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius

Large italic letters are sometimes mortised at the corners, instead of kerned, to allow the next letter to fit close.

From Type Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #1 by Stewart, A. A.