eternize

English

Etymology

From Middle French éterniser.

Verb

eternize (third-person singular simple present eternizes, present participle eternizing, simple past and past participle eternized)

1. (transitive) To make or render eternal.
2. (transitive) To prolong indefinitely.
3. (transitive) To immortalize; to make eternally famous.
   • c. 1587–1588, [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:

     at leaſt admit vs libertie,
     Euen as thou hopſt to be eternized,
     By liuing Aſias mightie Emperour.

   • 1595, Edmund Spenser, Sonnet LXXV:

     My verse your virtues rare shall eternize […]

Translations

To make or render eternal

• Bulgarian: увековечавам (bg) (uvekovečavam)

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “eternize”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Portuguese

Verb

eternize

1. inflection of eternizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative