单词 | monumentalize |
释义 | monumentalizev. transitive. To record or commemorate by or as by a monument; to make a permanent record of; to give a permanent form to. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > memorial or monument > record by monument [verb (transitive)] monument1606 monumentalize1857 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 1857 G. J. Wigley tr. St. Charles Borromeo Instr. Eccl. Building Pref. 1 Christianity has dwelt and monumentalized itself. 1874 C. P. Smyth Our Inheritance in Great Pyramid (ed. 2) iii. xi. 223 Our ancient measures..had been monumentalized there..before history began. 1881 Athenæum 20 Aug. 229/3 Who are..impelled to monumentalize their impressions in rhyme. 1885 ‘Helen Faucit’ in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 758/1 Looks and gestures, which it is, or is not, the business of the artist to monumentalise. 1926 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 13 127 One wonders..what unfortunate tribal chief was monumentalized in the barbarous name of Ypsilanti. 1978 Stud. Eng. Lit.: Eng. Number (Tokyo) 58 It is not the kind of epic that monumentalizes the glory of a hero. 1991 Antiquity 65 898/1 Whether or not a ‘double sunrise’ could be achieved by relating natural ridges elsewhere within the Avebury district would take considerable time to ascertain, but what really matters is that Silbury Hill..monumentalizes the event. Derivatives monuˈmentalizing n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [noun] > recording by monumentalization1870 monumentalizing1881 1881 Athenæum 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. 1983 Listener 21 July 34/4 Goehr can at least plead a long European..tradition of contrapuntal monumentalising in his four big choral settings of biblical Latin texts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1857 |
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