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fortunize

fortunize verb: to make fortunate or wealthy.

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
    • 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

Forms of fortunize

third-person singular presentfortunizes
present participlefortunizing
past participlefortunized
pastfortunized

Origin of fortunize

From fortune + -ize.

Questions about fortunize

What does fortunize mean?
Fortunize means to make fortunate or wealthy.
What part of speech is fortunize?
Fortunize is a verb.
What is the past tense of fortunize?
The past tense of fortunize is fortunized.

Words near fortunize in the dictionary

  1. fortunings
  2. fortunise
  3. fortunised
  4. fortunises
  5. fortunising
  6. fortunize
  7. fortunized
  8. fortunizes
  9. fortunizing
  10. Fortuny pleat
  11. Fortuny pleats

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