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immortalize, v.|ɪˈmɔːtəlaɪz|
[f. immortal + -ize. Cf. F. immortaliser (16th c. in Littré).]
1. trans. To render immortal.
a. To endow with endless life; to exempt from death.
1633Earl of Manchester Al Mondo (1636) 28 The body glorified..shall..be purified, perfected, and immortalized. 1875E. White Life in Christ iii. xx. (1878) 283 He..will complete the process by immortalising your mortal bodies also at the resurrection.
b. To make (a thing) everlasting, confer endless existence upon; to perpetuate.
c1566J. Alday tr. Boaystuau's Theat. World S ij, Printing..is the treasurer that immortaliseth the monuments of our spirites. 1592Davies Immort. Soul cxxviii, Mortal things desire their like to breed, That so they may their kind immortalize. 1688South Serm. (1697) I. 520 What are most of the Histories of the World, but Lyes? Lyes immortalized. 1715tr. C'tess D'Aunoy's Wks. 407 The King desir'd her not to immortalize her Grief. 1841Myers Cath. Th. iii. §41. 157 Errours.. generated by immortalising, as it were, merely temporary forms of expression.
c. To cause to be remembered or celebrated through all time; to confer enduring fame upon. (The prevailing sense.) Also absol.
1589Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 69 Holde, take thy fauors..and immortalize whom thou wilt with thy toyes. 1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, i. ii. 148 Driue them from Orleance, and be immortaliz'd. c1665Mrs. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1838) 12/1 The gentile virtues, that so immortalize the names of Cicero, Plutarch [etc.]. 1790Cowper My Mother's Pict. 8 Blest be the Art that can immortalize. 1821–30Ld. Cockburn Mem. 211 A genius..who has immortalized Edinburgh,—Walter Scott. 1856Grindon Life iii. (1875) 31 Those exquisite shapes which ancient Art immortalized in marble.
2. intr. To become immortal; to attain immortality or enduring fame. rare.
1737Pope Hor. Ep. ii. i. 54 Say at what age a Poet grows divine?.. End all dispute; and fix the year precise When British bards begin t'immortalize?
Hence iˈmmortalized ppl. a.; iˈmmortalizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1611Cotgr., Immortalization, an immortalization, an immortalizing. 1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. iii. iv. 59 These Divine immortalising drinks, Nectar and Ambrosia. 1694F. Bragge Disc. Parables i. 4 The word of God..will spring up..to the nourishing..nay the immortalizing of men. 1858Sears Athan. ii. xii. 250 [Christ] the great Exemplar of immortalized human nature. |