Extradition. The transfer of an accused from one state or country to another state or country that seeks to place the accused on trial. Extradition comes into play when a person charged with a crime under state statutes flees the state.
verb (used with object), mortified, mortifying. 1. to humiliate or shame, as by injury to one's pride or self-respect. 2. to subjugate (the body, passions, etc.) by abstinence, ascetic discipline, or self-inflicted suffering. 3. Pathology. to affect with gangrene or necrosis.
La petite mort (French pronunciation: â, the little death) is an expression which means the brief loss or weakening of consciousness and in modern usage refers specifically to the sensation of orgasm as likened to death. The first attested use of the expression in English was in 1572 with the meaning of fainting fit. It later came to mean nervous spasm as well. The first attested use with the meaning of orgasm was only in 1882.