fortitude (fortitud)

[F. fortitude = Sp. fortitud It. fortitudo, The fortitude of the place is best known to you. Shak., Othello, i. 3. He [Otho] conquered him [the Saracen] with no le fortitude then happine e. Coryat, Crudities, I. 120. 2. Mental power of endurance; patient courage under affliction, privation, or temptation; firmne in confronting danger, hardship, or suffering. Fortitude is a considerate ha ar ding vpon daunger, and a willing harte to take paines, in behalfe of the right. Sir T. Wilson , Art of Rhetoric, p. 35. You bear calamity with a fortitude Would become a man; I, like a weak girl, suffer. Fletcher (and another ), Sea Voyage, ii. 1. The imminent and constant risk of a a ination, a risk which has shaken very strong nerves, a risk which severely tried even the adamantine fortitude of Cromwell. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vii. 3. In astrol., any circumstance which strengthens the effect of a planet, or of the part of fortune; a dignity; especially, an accidental dignity, such as being in the ascendant, in the seventh, fourth, eleventh, second, fifth, ninth, or third house, being in hayz, having direct motion, having swift motion, being free from combustion, being in cazimi, etc. Let the twelve houses of the horoscope Be lodg'd with fortitudes and fortunates, To make you blest in your designs, Pandolfo. T. Tomkis (?), Albumazar. =Syn. 2. Endurance, etc. (see patience ), resolution, resolutene , nerve. fortnightly (fort'nit-li or-nit-li), adv. [ fortot. See for, prep. fortravelt, v. t. [ME. for travail len; For travail led hy were sore, that they moste slepe ech on. Life of St. Kenelm (Early Eng. Poems, ed. Furnivall), (L. 313.