All 7 Uses of
mortal
in
A Midsummer Night's Dream
- And the quaint mazes in the wanton green, For lack of tread, are undistinguishable: The human mortals want their winter here;†
Scene 2.1mortals = humans (especially merely humans) or people subject to death
- Lord, what fools these mortals be!
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- TITANIA Come, my lord; and in our flight, Tell me how it came this night That I sleeping here was found With these mortals on the ground.†
Scene 4.1mortals = humans (especially merely humans) or people subject to death
- But she, being mortal, of that boy did die; And for her sake do I rear up her boy: And for her sake I will not part with him.†
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- TITANIA I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again; Mine ear is much enamour'd of thy note.†
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- TITANIA Out of this wood do not desire to go; Thou shalt remain here whether thou wilt or no. I am a spirit of no common rate,—The summer still doth tend upon my state; And I do love thee: therefore, go with me, I'll give thee fairies to attend on thee; And they shall fetch thee jewels from the deep, And sing, while thou on pressed flowers dost sleep: And I will purge thy mortal grossness so That thou shalt like an airy spirit go.†
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- FIRST FAIRY Hail, mortal!†
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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