eternize
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French éterniser.
Verb edit
eternize (third-person singular simple present eternizes, present participle eternizing, simple past and past participle eternized)
- (transitive) To make or render eternal.
- (transitive) To prolong indefinitely.
- (transitive) To immortalize; to make eternally famous.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
- at leaſt admit vs libertie,
Euen as thou hopſt to be eternized,
By liuing Aſias mightie Emperour.
- 1595, Edmund Spenser, Sonnet LXXV:
- My verse your virtues rare shall eternize […]
Translations edit
To make or render eternal
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References edit
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “eternize”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
Portuguese edit
Verb edit
eternize
- inflection of eternizar: