All 5 Uses
mortal
in
Romeo and Juliet
(Edited)
- 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 himp. 71.6 *mortals = humans - My very friend, hath got his mortal hurt
In my behalf;p. 123.3mortal = 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?p. 135.6mortal = human - That living mortals, hearing them, run mad;
p. 193.7mortals = humans
- Such mortal drugs I have;
p. 215.6 *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
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(3)
(mortal as in: felt mortal agony) extreme or intense
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)