memorializev.
/mᵻˈmɔːrɪəlʌɪz/, U.S. /məˈmɔriəˌlaɪz/ 1. transitive. To address or present a memorial (memorial n. 5b) to; to petition. Also intransitive. Now rare. Perhaps Obsolete.
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the mind > language > speech > request > request or ask for [verb (transitive)] > petition > present (a petition) > to a person
memorial1768
memorialize1796
1796 T. W. Tone Diary 19 July in Writings (2009) II. 246 I will tell him that I am here memorializing the French government for some compensation for what I have suffered in their cause.
1833 Lady Morgan Manor Sackville x, in Dramatic Scenes II. 22 I cannot yet believe but they might have been saved, if you had memorialized the Lord Lieutenant.
1855 C. G. F. Gore Mammon II. 154 Last year, I memorialised the bishop.
1880 B. Disraeli Endymion III. xxxi. 310 The counties met, the municipalities memorialised.
1900 Catholic World Dec. 389 A ‘large and respectable body’ of Koreans jointly memorialized their Emperor for permission to ‘exterminate the Christians’ in their respective districts.
1919 W. B. Yeats in Irish Statesman 23 Aug. 212/2 I would..memorialize the bishops to open once again that Lough Derg cave of vision.
2. transitive. To preserve the memory of; to be or supply a memorial of; to commemorate.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > commemoration, remembrance > commemorate [verb (transitive)]
mingOE
mina1200
remenec1400
remember?a1439
memorize1593
commemorize1628
commemoratea1638
embalma1674
monument1756
memorialize1798
anniversary1841
monumentalize1857
mark1871
obituarize1877
jubilee1887
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > fame after death > make famous after death [verb (transitive)] > preserve in memory > mention as worthy of remembrance
remenec1390
memorialize1798
commemorate1876
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1798 T. Green Diary Lover of Lit. (1810) 82 A stone, memorialising the spot of a ‘barbarous murder’.
1856 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay V. 41 Those ‘grammatici’ whom he [sc. Suetonius] memorialises as an order of men flocking to Rome in the days of the Flavian family.
1892 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 151 58/1 Five arches, probably meant to memorialise the five arches of the Pool of Bethesda.
1952 G. Sarton Hist. Sci. I. xv. 386 The inscriptions, of which the temple was full,..memorialize rites of purification, invitations to the festivals,..and so forth.
1974 E. B. White Let. 3 May (1976) 653 Poets are always dying and being memorialized.
1998 R. Gordon Ailments through Ages 11 Bubonic plague..is the illness memorialized as the Great Plague of London and the Black Death.
Derivatives
meˈmorialized adj.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > commemoration, remembrance > [adjective] > commemorated
memorialized1803
1803 Man in Moon 31 Dec. (1804) 113 This paper would be little else than a chronological table of memorialized absurdities, if it were not that the subject must necessarily lead to some pertinent observations.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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