eternize
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Etymology
Origin of eternize
From the Medieval Latin word ēternizāre, dating back to 1560–70. See eterne, -ize
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We suppose he wants to eternize his Memory by eating a Breakfast.
From The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany Parts 2, 3 and 4 by Maximillian E. Novak
Plate inscribed with a ship's name. eternize Make eternal.
From Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States by William Henry Seward
The hireling part of the press, notwithstanding, strove to eternize this awful and barbarous system, and thus assisted the minister to cherish the growth of Ignorance.
From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lady Anne Hamilton
Chaucer is himself the great poetical observer of men, who in every age is born to record and eternize its acts.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones
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
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
Let dead names be eternized in dead stone, But living names by living shafts be known.
From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Neltje Blanchan
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
The dead are eternized in stone, The living, by living shafts are known.
From Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919 by Northern Nut Growers Association
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
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