eternify

English

Verb

eternify (third-person singular simple present eternifies, present participle eternifying, simple past and past participle eternified)

1. (obsolete) To make eternal.
   • a. 1610, The Mirror for Magistrates

     Fame […] eternifies the name.

   • 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volumes (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:

     This said, her wing'd shoes to her feet she tied, <br<Formed all of gold, and all eternified

References

• “eternify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.