All 5 Uses of
mortal
in
Romeo and Juliet
- O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art
As glorious to this night, being o'er my head,
As is a winged messenger of heaven
Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes
Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him
When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds
And sails upon the bosom of the air.
Scene 2.2 (definition 1) *mortals = humans
- My very friend, hath got his mortal hurt
In my behalf;
Scene 3.1 (definition 2)mortal = lethal (causing death)
- O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell
When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend
In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh?
Scene 3.2 (definition 1)mortal = human
- That living mortals, hearing them, run mad;
Scene 4.3 (definition 1)mortals = humans
- Such mortal drugs I have;
Scene 5.1 (definition 2) *mortal = lethal (causing death)
Definitions:
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(1) (mortal as in: mortal body) human (especially merely human); or subject to death
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(2) (mortal as in: a mortal wound) causing death