All 7 Uses of

mortal

in

A Midsummer Night's Dream

his yoke in vain, The ploughman lost his sweat; and the green corn Hath rotted ere his youth attain'd a beard: The fold stands empty in the drowned field, And crows are fatted with the murrion flock; The nine men's morris is fill'd up with mud; And the quaint mazes in the wanton green, For lack of tread, are undistinguishable: The human mortals want their winter here; No night is now with hymn or carol blest:— Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, Pale in her anger, washes all the air, That rheumatic diseases do abound: And thorough this distemperature we see The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose; And on old Hyem's thin and icy crown A†
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mortals = humans (especially merely humans) or people subject to death

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.†
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mortals = 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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Definitions:

(1) (mortal as in: mortal body)
human (especially merely human); or subject to death
(2) (mortal as in: a mortal wound)
causing death
(3) (mortal as in: felt mortal agony)
extreme or intense
(4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)