mortalizev.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 271 Tell who (immortall) mortalizing, brought-vs The Balm from Heau'n which hoped helth hath wrought vs.

1661 A. Brome Songs & Other Poems i. 2 We know you're Flesh and Blood as well as men, And when we will can mortalize, and make you so agen.

1993 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 90 12033/1 The Werner syndrome gene only modulates the rate of cell senescence and not whether or not they mortalize.

1643 R. Overton Mans Mortallitie (1644) i. 1 What of Adam was immortall through Innocency, was to be mortallized by Transgression.

1655 J. Quarles Divine Medit. i. 37 Then, man (mortaliz'd by sin) must be..subject unto Deaths Soveraigntie.

1706 S. 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.

1831 T. Keightley Mythol. Anc. Greece & Italy 477 In later times he [sc. Faunus] was mortalised like all the other Italian gods.

1896 J. W. Riley Compl. Wks. (1916) VII. 1763 With air Of Hebe mortalized, she led her van Of votaries.

1939 A. Ridler Poems 31 It is loving-kindness mortalised to mind Makes grey merry and fixed laws attend.

1952–9 R. Graves Compl. Poems (1999) III. 356 The nuptial contract, that deters Adulteresses and adulterers, May sweetly mortalize the venial sin Of beach flirtation after too much gin.

1992 ELH 59 522 This..subtly extends the threat to the king, who is colloquially mortalized and linked to the duke.