unimmortalize

present singular third person unimmortalizes · participle present unimmortalizing · participle past unimmortalized · past unimmortalized

1. transitiveTo cause (someone or something) to not be immortal or to cease to be immortal; to mortalize.

   I long to hear you idolize Shakespeare & yʳ father unimmortalize him.

   1907, David Garrick, edited by George Pierce Baker, Some Unpublished Correspondence of David Garrick, page 127

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   Lucifer. They have well-nigh unimmortalized myself. Festus. Yet they have nought to sate the pining spirit Which doth enamour immortality.

   1839, Philip James Bailey, Festus, page 365

   “Here,” writes A Hunter of Bristolian Oddities, “you may see a surgeon, by the inspiration of vanity, metamorphosed into a wooden antiquarian and writer of epitaphs, which would unimmortalize the poetical pen of Stephen Duck.”

   1972, Edward Meyerstein, A Life of Thomas Chatterton, page 145