mortalise

t. See mortalize. mortality (môr-tal'i-ti), n. [ IMG:content-0966.png:[blocks in formation] 3. Frequency of death; numerousne of deaths; deaths in relation to their numbers: as, a time of great mortality. In that bataile was grete mortalite on bot he parties, but the hethen peple hadde moc he the werse. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 56. Ther fell suche a mortalyte in the hoost that of fiue ther dyed thre. Berners, tr. of Froi art's Chron., I. cccxxxi. In the extreme mortality of modern war will be found the only hope that man can have of even a partial ce a IMG:content-0967.png:[blocks in formation] 3. Deadly; destructive to life; causing death, Sylvester , tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Magnificence. or that may or must cause death; fatal. This gentleman, the prince's near ally, My very friend, hath got his mortal hurt In my behalf. IMG:content-0968.png:[blocks in formation] Bills of mortality, abstracts from public registers showing the numbers that have died in any parish or place during certain periods of time. He proceeded to acquaint her who of quality was well or sick within the bills of mortality. Steele, Tatler, No. 207. Law of mortality, the principle, deduced from a study and analysis of the bills of mortality and the experiences of insurance companies during a long number of years, which determines what average proportion of the persons who enter upon a particular period of life will die during that period, and consequently the proportion of those who will survive. Tables showing the estimated number of persons of a given age that will die in each succeeding year are called tables of mortality. Thus, of 100,000 persons of the age of 10, 490 will not reach the age of 11; of 99,510 persons remaining alive, 397 will die before reaching the age of 12, and so on. On these tables are largely founded the calculations of insurance actuaries in regard to rates of premium, present value of policies, efc. mortalize (môr'tal-iz), v. t.; pret. and pp. mor talized, ppr. mortalizing. [ We know you're flesh and blood as well as men, And when we will, can mortalize and make you so again. A. Brome , Plain Dealing. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary mortally