单词 | immortalize |
释义 | immortalizev. 1. transitive. To render immortal. a. To endow with endless life; to exempt from death. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > continuance or tenacity of life > continue in life [verb (transitive)] > immortalize immortalizate1566 immortalize1631 1631 Earl of Manchester Contemplatio Mortis 20 The bodie glorified..shall..be purified, perfected, and immortalized. 1875 E. White Life in Christ (1878) iii. xx. 283 He..will complete the process by immortalising your mortal bodies also at the resurrection. b. To make (a thing) everlasting, confer endless existence upon; to perpetuate. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > eternity [verb (transitive)] > make eternal or render timeless perpetuate1530 immortalize?1566 eternish1589 eternizec1595 eternify1610 eternalize1847 detemporalize1914 ?1566 J. Alday tr. P. Boaistuau Theatrum Mundi sig. S ij Printing..is the treasurer that immortaliseth the monuments of our spirites. 1599 J. Davies Nosce Teipsum 30 Mortall things desire their like to breed, That so they may their kind immortalize. 1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 588 What are most of the Histories of the World, but Lyes? Lyes immortalized. 1715 tr. M.-C. d'Aulnoy Wks. 407 The King desir'd her not to immortalize her Grief. 1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iii. §41. 157 Errours.. generated by immortalising, as it were, merely temporary forms of expression. c. To cause to be remembered or celebrated through all time; to confer enduring fame upon. (The prevailing sense.) Also absol. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > fame after death > make famous after death [verb (transitive)] > confer eternal fame on eternish1578 immortalize1589 eterne1605 eternify1610 eternize1610 eternalize1620 eternitizea1713 marmorealize1948 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. H2 Holde take thy fauors,..and immortalize whom thou wilt with thy toyes. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) i. iii. 127 Driue them from Orleance, and be immortaliz'd . View more context for this quotation c1665 L. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1973) To Children 5 The Gentile vertues that so immortalize the names of Cicero, Plutarch [etc.]. 1790 W. Cowper On Receipt Mother's Picture 8 Blest be the Art that can immortalize. a1854 Ld. Cockburn Memorials (1856) xv. 211 A genius..who has immortalized Edinburgh... Walter Scott. 1857 L. H. Grindon Life (ed. 2) iii. 31 Those exquisite shapes which Art has immortalized in marble. 2. intransitive. To become immortal; to attain immortality or enduring fame. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > fame after death > become famous after death [verb (intransitive)] > attain eternal fame immortalize1737 1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace ii. i. 4 Say at what age a Poet grows divine?.. End all dispute; and fix the year precise When British bards begin t'Immortalize? Derivatives iˈmmortalized adj. ΚΠ 1858 E. H. Sears Athanasia ii. xii. 250 [Christ] the great Exemplar of immortalized human nature. iˈmmortalizing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > continuance or tenacity of life > [noun] > immortality > immortalizing immortalization1603 immortalizing1611 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Immortalization, an immortalization, an immortalizing. 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I iii. iv. 59 These Divine immortalising drinks, Nectar and Ambrosia. 1694 F. Bragge Pract. Disc. Parables i. 4 The word of God..will spring up..to the nourishing..nay the immortalizing of men. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.?1566 |
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