Meanings
present singular third person eternizes · participle present eternizing · participle past eternized · past eternized
- transitiveTo make or render eternal.
- transitiveTo prolong indefinitely.
- transitiveTo immortalize; to make eternally famous.
My verse your virtues rare shall eternize […]
1595, Edmund Spenser, Sonnet LXXV1 more example
at leaſt admit vs libertie, Euen as thou hopſt to be eternized, By liuing Aſias mightie Emperour.
c. 1587–1588 (date written), [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
Synonyms & antonyms
verbmake famous forever
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Frenchéterniser
- Englisheternize
From Middle French éterniser.
More words from Middle French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian увековечавам
- увековечавам (uvekovečavam)To make or render eternal
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