All 7 Uses of
mortal
in
Macbeth
- they have more in them than mortal knowledge.
p. 31.1 *mortal = humans (especially merely humans)
- And you all know, security
Is mortals' chiefest enemy.†p. 113.0mortals = humans (especially merely humans) or people subject to death
- Hold fast the mortal sword,
p. 139.5 *mortal = deadly (causing death)
- Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here;
And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full
Of direst cruelty!†p. 33.5
- Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time,
Ere humane statute purged the gentle weal;
Ay, and since too, murders have been performed
Too terrible for the ear: the time has been,
That, when the brains were out, the man would die,
And there an end; but now they rise again,
With twenty mortal murders on their crowns,
And push us from our stools: this is more strange
Than such a murder is.†p. 105.5
- Rebellion's head, rise never till the wood
Of Birnam rise, and our high-placed Macbeth
Shall live the lease of nature, pay his breath
To time and mortal custom.†p. 127.6
- The spirits that know
All mortal consequences have pronounced me thus,—
"Fear not, Macbeth; no man that's born of woman
Shall e'er have power upon thee."†p. 169.3
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)