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memorialize, v.|mɪˈmɔərɪəlaɪz|
[f. memorial v. + -ize.]
1. trans. To preserve the memory of; to be or supply a memorial of: to commemorate.
1798T. Green Diary Lover of Lit. (1810) 82 A stone, memorialising the spot of a ‘barbarous murder’. 1822–56De Quincey Confess. Wks. 1890 III. 255 Those ‘grammatici’ whom he [Suetonius] memorialises as an order of men flocking to Rome in the days of the Flavian family. 1892Blackw. Mag. CLI. 58/1 Five arches, probably meant to memorialise the five arches of the Pool of Bethesda.
2. To address a memorial to. Also absol.
1798Hull Advertiser 14 Apr. 2/4 The Deputies..continue to memorialize the French Plenipotentiaries. 1855Mrs. Gore Mammon II. 154 Last year, I memorialised the bishop. 1880Disraeli Endym. III. xxxi. 310 The counties met, the municipalities memorialised.
Hence meˈmorialized, meˈmorializing ppl. adjs.; memorialiˈzation, the action of memorialize v.; meˈmorializer, one who memorializes.
1803Man in Moon (1804) 113 Memorialized. 1807Bentham Mem. & Corr. Wks. 1843 X. 424 An arrangement which..J. B. has the satisfaction of seeing proposed by the memorializing Judges. 1837T. Hook Jack Brag (L.), The memorializers had taken the precaution to put their memorial in the form of a round-robin. 1874Piazzi Smyth Our Inheritance ii. x. 193 Those..Egyptians..delighted in..architectural memorialization of bulls and goats and..every bestial thing. |