Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make eternal.
- transitive verb To protract for an indefinite period.
- transitive verb To make perpetually famous; immortalize.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make eternal, everlasting, or endless.
- To prolong the existence or duration of indefinitely; perpetuate.
- To make forever famous; immortalize: as, to
eternize the exploits of heroes. - Also spelled
eternise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make eternal or endless.
- transitive verb To make forever famous; to immortalize.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To make or render
eternal . - verb transitive To
prolong indefinitely . - verb transitive To
immortalize ; to make eternallyfamous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cause to continue indefinitely
- verb make famous forever
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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You do not use to be so kind to everybody, let me tell you; for as they seek to eternize their names, it would be much better for them to be thus changed into hard stones than to return to earth and putrefaction.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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You do not use to be so kind to everybody, let me tell you; for as they seek to eternize their names, it would be much better for them to be thus changed into hard stones than to return to earth and putrefaction.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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As it is by his virtues that man may best hope to live in the memory of man, is there not something unnatural, something monstrous, in seeking to eternize here below, that of which the proper doom is obscurity and oblivion?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various
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The only artist I ever heard of who was disappointed and unrewarded for his labour in attempting to eternize the memory of Napoleon Bonaparte, was a German of the name of Schumacher.
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Many of our leading statesmen are engaged in devising and furthering plans for the extension of its territorial area, thereby hoping to perpetuate and eternize its bloody existence, while the majority of our most distinguished divines find employment in constructing discourses, founded upon perverse expositions of sacred writ, calculated to establish and fix in the minds of the people the impression that slavery is a divine institution.
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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?
The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book Ontario. Ministry of Education
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Country, preferred from Earl to Duke of _New-Castle_; was a Person equally addicted both to Arms and Arts, which will eternize his Name to all Posterity, so long as Learning, Loyalty, and Valour shall be in
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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We suppose he wants to eternize his Memory by eating a Breakfast.
The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany Parts 2, 3 and 4 Maximillian E. [Commentator] Novak
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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
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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The only artist I ever heard of who was disappointed and unrewarded for his labour in attempting to eternize the memory of Napoleon Bonaparte, was a German of the name of Schumacher.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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