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mortalize, v.|ˈmɔːtəlaɪz|
[f. mortal + -ize.]
1. intr. To become mortal. rare.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. i. Eden 7 Tell who (immortall) mortalizing, brought us The balm from heav'n wch hoped health hath wrought us.
2. trans. To make mortal; also, to consider or represent as mortal. Hence ˈmortalized ppl. a.
1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter iii. 7 If we look inwards, there we find a depraved soul, a mortalized body. 1643R. O. Man's Mortality i. (1644) 1 What of Adam was immortall through Innocency, was to be mortallized by Transgression. 1706S. Clarke Let. to Mr. Dodwell 10 That the Soul is by Nature Immortal, and must be mortalized by the Omnipotence of God, if ever it perish. 1831Keightley Mythol. Anc. Greece & Italy 477 In later times he [sc. Faunus] was mortalised like all the other Italian gods. |