Meanings
verbfortunize (third-person singular simple present fortunizes, present participle fortunizing, simple past and past participle fortunized)
present singular third person fortunizes · participle present fortunizing · participle past fortunized · past fortunized
- obsoleteraretransitiveTo 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 641 more example
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
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