fortunize
verbEtymology From fortune + -ize.
- 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: