单词 | eternize |
释义 | eternizev. 1. transitive. To make eternal, i.e. everlasting or endless; to give endless nature or duration to. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > eternity [verb (transitive)] > make eternal or render timeless perpetuate1530 immortalize?1566 eternish1589 eternizec1595 eternify1610 eternalize1847 detemporalize1914 c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxix. 104 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 85 There his name who love and prize, Stable stay shall eternize. 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xiii. xvi. 481 His [sc. God's] holy wil..can eternize creatures. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 60 That [sc. happiness] fondly lost, This other [sc. immortality] serv'd but to eternize woe. View more context for this quotation a1711 T. Ken Wks. (1721) IV. 534 Assur'd to reunite on high And eternize their sacred Tie. 1740 G. Cheyne Ess. Regimen 14 The most perfect Cherubim in Heaven, to perpetuate and eternise its Happiness, must [etc.] 1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 40 The mortal soul Shall be divinised and eternised. 2. a. To prolong indefinitely (a state or condition); to prolong indefinitely the existence of (a thing). ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > have duration [verb (transitive)] > cause to endure, sustain, or prolong > indefinitely or perpetuate eternize1601 perpetuatea1620 sempiternize1693 eternalize1808 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvii. xviii. 522 By this meanes they take order to eternize their Olives. 1633 Battle of Lutzen in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) IV. 197 A truce which..they wished had been a peace, whereby their repose might be eternised. 1681 H. Neville Plato Redivivus 35 Force or Fraud may alter a Government; but it is Property that must Found and Eternise it. 1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 30 Aug. (1965) I. 257 Perpetual Quarrels, which they take care to eternize by leaving them to their Successors. 1850 R. W. Emerson Swedenborg in Representative Men iii. 128 An attempt to eternize the fireside and the nuptial chamber. 1879 C. Rossetti Seek & Find 236 Their first stage is transitory: eternize that first stage, and it would become penal. b. esp. To make lasting, perpetuate (fame, memory, praise, etc.). ΚΠ 1568 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Dial Princes (rev. ed.) iv. Prol. f. 104 The memory of you shall remain eternized to your Successors for euer. 1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie Ep. Ded. sig. ¶iiiv My tongue is too to base a Tryton to eternise her praise. 1605 Play Stucley in Sch. Shaks. (1878) 266 Our fame Shall be eterniz'd in the mouths of men. 1624 R. Bellings Sixth Bk. Arcadia 6 To eternize..the famous memorie..of his deceased Mistris Hellen. 1683 Apol. Protestants France iii. 10 The famous Act of Parliament at Paris has eternized the Memory of this Execrable Attempt. a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 211 His Favours eternizing their Renown. 1773 P. Brydone Tour Sicily & Malta I. xix. 366 Horses..had..magnificent monuments built to eternize their memory. 1867 Felton's Greece, Anc. & Mod. I. 490 An art which eternizes the memory of the human race. 3. To make eternally or perpetually famous; to perpetuate the fame or memory of; to immortalize. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > fame after death > make famous after death [verb (transitive)] > confer eternal fame on eternish1578 immortalize1589 eterne1605 eternify1610 eternize1610 eternalize1620 eternitizea1713 marmorealize1948 1610 R. Niccols England's Eliza in Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) 869 Cadiz..Where great Alcides..Did fixe his pillars t'eternize his name. 1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng Ded. (1725) 1 Trajan, Adrian are Eternized for practising all liberal Sciences. 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi iv. ii. iv. 184/1 The Deaths of the Heroes, whose Lives they have Eternized. 1746 T. Smollett Reproof 113 Did not his virtues eterniz'd remain. 1818 J. Bentham Church-of-Englandism 153 What might be..eternized in glass by Mr. Pearson. 1862 R. H. Patterson Ess. Hist. & Art 107 To see helpless and unbeauteous agony eternised in stone. 1868 J. Bright Speeches Public Policy II. 369 Marble monuments to eternise the men who have thus become great. 1876 J. S. Blackie Songs Relig. & Life 148 Monuments..to eternise Lawyers with supple conscience, and glib tongue. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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