eternize

American  

[ih-tur-nahyz] / ɪˈtɜr naɪz /

especially British, eternise

verb (used with object)

eternized, eternizing

1. to make eternal; perpetuate.

2. to immortalize.

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Other Word Forms

• eternization
  noun
• uneternized
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of eternize

From the Medieval Latin word ēternizāre, dating back to 1560–70. See eterne, -ize

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

eternize eternized eternizing

Many there were who sought to eternize their own Names by honouring his; some by Elegies, and other Devices, amongst the rest one made this Anagram upon his name.

From The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) by William Riley Parker

Then there may be titles, and pensions, and marble monuments to eternize the men who have thus become great;—but what becomes of you, and your country, and your children?

From The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book by Ontario. Ministry of Education

Being his next voyage to that to Nombre de Dios, formerly imprinted ... offered ... especially for the stirring up of heroick spirits, to benefit their country and eternize their names by like bold attempts.

From The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century by Clarence Henry Haring

And if my tongue eternize can your praise, Or silly speech increase your worthy fame, If ought I can, to heaven your worth can raise, The age to come shall wonder at the same.

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia by Martha Foote Crow

Live she for ever, and her royall p'laces 580 Be fild with praises of divinest wits, That her eternize with their heavenlie writs!

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Edmund Spenser

A woman wove through the sea of red and up to the eternized president, accompanied by a pair of panting golden retrievers.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2019

Is not their memory eternized in one of John Foster's most ponderous pieces of sarcasm?

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by

They built up, through their wisdom and patriotism, monuments which have eternized their names.

From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by L. E. (Lucius Eugene) Chittenden

Thus should heroes be eternized in brass, or granite, or marble, while they are instinct with the glory of action, not when they are aged and fatten and grow bilious and use ear-trumpets.

From Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire by John Augustus O'Shea

Therefore at least admit us liberty, Even as thou hop'st to be eternized By living Asia's mighty emperor.

From Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1 by Christopher Marlowe

These should have some such eternizing epitaph as this: “For four years they kept the fates banded against them uneasy.”

From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed

Although more enduring than parchment, tombs, pyramids, and temples, it is as far as they from truly eternizing the memory of what man has fancied and done.

From Curiosities of the Sky by Garrett Putman Serviss