immortalise
See also: immortalisé
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From immortal + -ise. Perhaps modelled on Middle French immortaliser.
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immortalise (third-person singular simple present immortalises, present participle immortalising, simple past and past participle immortalised) (non-Oxford British English, transitive)
- To give unending life to, to make immortal.
- 1790, William Cowper, “On the Receipt of My Mother’s Picture out of Norfolk. The Gift of My Cousin Ann Bodham.”, in Poems […], London: […] [F]or J[oseph] Johnson, […] by T[homas] Bensley, […], published 1806, →OCLC, page 579:
- The meek intelligence of thoſe dear eyes / (Bleſt be the art that can immortalize, / The art that baffles time's tyrannic claim / To quench it) here ſhines on me ſtill the ſame.
- To make eternally famous.
- His heroic deeds were immortalised in song and tale.
- 2013 May 15, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian[1]:
- The clocks at either end of the stadium had just ticked past 92 minutes when Branislav Ivanovic made the run that will immortalise him in Chelsea's history.
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to give unending life to
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to make eternally famous
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immortalise
- inflection of immortaliser: