fortunize

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English

Etymology

From fortune +‎ -ize.

Verb

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

  1. (rare, obsolete, transitive) To make fortunate or wealthy.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      For wisedome is most riches: fooles therefore / They are which fortunes doe by vowes devize, / Sith each unto himselfe his life may fortunize.
    • 1871, Mark Hardcastle, ‘Hamilton Brothers’, The Argosy, volume 12, page 64:
      I am going out to fortunize my own life; and you are staying at home to fortunize yours.