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eternize, v.|iːˈtɜːnaɪz, ˈiːtənaɪz|
Also 6–7 æternise, 7 -ize.
[a. Fr. éternise-r, ad. med.L. æternizāre, f. ætern-us: see eterne.
Both the accentuations above noted are frequent in poetry; Shakes. has eˈternize, which is now the more usual stress.]
1. trans. To make eternal, i.e. everlasting or endless; to give endless nature or duration to.
1580C'tess Pembroke Ps. lxix. (1823) 123 There his name who love and prize, Stable stay shall eternize. 1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God 481 His [God's] holy will..can eternize creations. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 60 That [happiness] fondly lost, This other [immortality] serv'd but to eternize woe. a1711Ken Imitat. Poet. Wks. 1721 IV. 534 Assur'd to reunite on high And eternize their sacred Tie. 1740Cheyne Regimen 14 The most perfect Cherubim in Heaven, to perpetuate and eternise its Happiness, must [etc.] 1839Bailey Festus iv. (1848) 30 The mortal soul Shall be divinised and eternised.
2. To prolong indefinitely (a state or condition); to prolong indefinitely the existence of (a thing).
1601Holland Pliny (1634) I. 522 By this meanes they take order to eternise their Oliues. 1633Battle of Lutzen in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) IV. 197 A truce which..they wished had been a peace, whereby their repose might be eternised. 1681Nevile Plato Rediv. 35 Force or Fraud may alter a Government; but it is Property that must Found and Eternise it. 1716Lady M. W. Montague Lett. I. vi. 18 Perpetual quarrels which they take care to eternise, by leaving them to their successors. 1847Emerson Repr. Men, Swedenborg Wks. (Bohn) I. 327 An attempt to eternize the fireside and the nuptial chamber. 1879C. Rossetti Seek and F. 236 Their first stage is transitory: eternize that first stage, and it would become penal.
b. esp. To make lasting, perpetuate (fame, memory, praise, etc.).
1568North tr. Gueuara's Diall Princes iv. II. 104 The memory of you shall remain eternized to your Successors for euer. 1589Nashe Anat. Absurditie Epist., My tongue is too to base a Tryton to eternise her praise. 1605Play Stucley in Sch. Shaks. (1878) 266 Our fame Shall be eterniz'd in the mouths of men. 1628R. B[eling] Contn. Sidney's Arcadia vi. 487 To eternise the famous memorie..of his deceased Mistris Hellen. 1683Apol. Prot. France iii. 10 The famous Act of Parliament at Paris has eternized the Memory of this Execrable Attempt. a1711Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 211 His Favours eternizing their Renown. 1773Brydone Sicily xix. (1809) 198 Horses..had magnificent monuments erected to eternize their memory. 1866Felton Anc. & Mod. Greece I. xii. 490 An art which eternizes the memory of the human race.
3. To make eternally or perpetually famous; to perpetuate the fame or memory of; to immortalize.
1610Mirr. Mag. 869 Cadiz..Where great Alcides..Did fixe his pillars t'eternize his name. 1665J. Webb Stone-Heng Ded. (1725) 1 Trajan, Adrian are Eternized for practising all liberal Sciences. 1746Smollett Reproof 113 Did not his virtues eterniz'd remain. 1818Bentham Ch. Eng. 153 What might be..eternized in glass by Mr. Pearson. 1853Bright Sp. Peace 13 Oct., Marble monuments to eternise the men who have thus become great. 1862R. H. Patterson Ess. Hist. & Art 107 To see helpless and unbeauteous agony eternised in stone. 1876Blackie Songs Relig. & Life 148 Monuments..to eternise Lawyers with supple conscience, and glib tongue. |