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immortalise

verb
/ɪˈmɔː(ɹ).təˌlaɪz/

Etymology

From immortal + -ise. Perhaps modelled on Middle French immortaliser.

  1. derived from *anūšiya-✻
  2. derived from *anauša-✻
  3. calqued from ἀθάνατος
  4. derived from immortālis
  5. suffixed as immortalise — “immortal + ise”

Definitions

  1. To give unending life to, to make immortal.

    • 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.

  2. To make eternally famous.

    • His heroic deeds were immortalised in song and tale.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA