| 释义 |
monumentalize, v.|mɒnjuːˈmɛntəlaɪz|
[f. monumental + -ize.]
trans. To make permanent record of; to record or commemorate as by a monument.
1857G. J. Wigley Borromeo's Instr. Eccl. Building Pref. 1 Christianity has dwelt and monumentalized itself. 1874C. P. Smyth Our Inher. in Gt. Pyramid iii. xi. (ed. 2) 223 Our ancient measures..had been monumentalized there..before history began. 1881Athenæum 20 Aug. 229/3 Who are..impelled to monumentalize their impressions in rhyme. 1885‘Helen Faucit’ in Blackw. Mag. 758 Looks and gestures, which it is, or it is not, the business of the artist to monumentalise.
Hence monuˌmentaliˈzation, the act of making or state of being monumental. monuˈmentalizing vbl. n., a placing on record, commemoration.
1877C. P. Smyth Our Inherit. in Gt. Pyramid (ed. 3) 32 This monumentalisation of superhuman contemporary knowledge. 1881Athenæum No. 2811. 328/2 The sonnet as a poetic form for the monumentalizing of a single thought or phase of emotion..is already high in favour. |