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

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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 Parker, William Riley

Not so," quod I; "let baser things devize To dy in dust, but you shall live by fame: My verse your vertues rare shall eternize, And in the hevens wryte your glorious name.

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

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 Novak, Maximillian E.

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 Spenser, Edmund

V. last forever, endure forever, go on forever; have no end. eternize, perpetuate.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

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

We do not want to see Cervantes's days of poverty and struggle eternized in statues.

From Castilian Days by Hay, John

Let dead names be eternized in dead stone,   But living names by living shafts be known.

From Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Blanchan, Neltje

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

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 O'Shea, John Augustus

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 Reed, John Calvin

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 Serviss, Garrett Putman