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eternalize, v.|iːˈtɜːnəlaɪz|
[f. as prec. + -ize.]
1. trans. To render eternal in duration or character.
1847A. J. Davis in Fraser's Mag. XXXVII. 134 It contains truth eternalised. 1850R. Montgomery God & Man 314 If the body of Jesus is thus substantially eternalised so will the bodies of the righteous be. 1890J. Martineau Seat Authority in Relig. iv. iii. 507 His personal manifestation of what God is and loves and eternalizes.
b. hyperbolically. To prolong indefinitely, perpetuate.
1808Ann. Reg. 1806, 717 The second form of negotiation would eternalize the war. 1855M. Arnold Consolation 63 The hour, whose happy Unalloy'd moments I would eternalize. 1859Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. II. c. 92 The grandest move..ever made towards eternalizing the supremacy of money at elections.
†2. To make eternally famous; to immortalize.
1620Shelton Quix. ii. xliv, And so with his burnt ashes..Don Quixotes valour is eternalized. 1663Rollock in Mrq. Worcester's Water-Comm. Engine 9 This [the Water-Engine] alone were enough to eternalize his Name to all Ages. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. iv. iv. (1852) 112 The deaths of the heroes whose lives they have eternalized. 1822T. Mitchell Aristoph. I. 112 The gratitude of the Athenians..eternalized the circumstance in songs.
Hence eˈternalized ppl. a.
1830Fraser's Mag. II. 267 We..have thus, in an article, placed some of the unfortunate gentleman's productions in an eternalized form. 1884Congregational Year-bk. 78 It is but His eternalized action. |
