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fortunise

fortunise is the alternative form of fortunize.

Meaning of fortunize

Verb

fortunize (third-person singular simple present fortunizes, present participle fortunizing, simple past and past participle fortunized)

  1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To make fortunate or wealthy.
    • 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 of fortunise

third-person singular presentfortunises
present participlefortunising
past participlefortunised
pastfortunised

Questions about fortunise

What is fortunise the alternative form of?
Fortunise is the alternative form of fortunize.

Words near fortunise in the dictionary

  1. fortunetellers
  2. fortunetelling
  3. Fortunian
  4. fortuning
  5. fortunings
  6. fortunise
  7. fortunised
  8. fortunises
  9. fortunising
  10. fortunize
  11. fortunized

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