fortunize en · VERB
Etymology
From fortune + -ize.
Meanings
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(obsolete, rare, transitive) To make fortunate or wealthy.
I am going out to fortunize my own life; and you are staying at home to fortunize yours.
1871, Mark Hardcastle, ‘Hamilton Brothers’, The Argosy, volume 12, page 64:For wisedome is most riches: fooles therefore / They are which fortunes doe by vowes devize, / Sith each unto himselfe his life may fortunize.
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| fortunizes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| fortunized | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| fortunized | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| fortunizing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |