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Definition of Immortalise
1. Verb. Be or provide a memorial to a person or an event. "We memorialized the Dead"
Generic synonyms: Remind
Specialized synonyms: Monumentalise, Monumentalize
Derivative terms: Commemoration, Commemorative, Memorial, Memorial, Record
2. Verb. Make famous forever. "This melody immortalized its composer"
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Definition of Immortalise
1. Verb. (transitive) To give unending life to, to make immortal. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To make eternally famous. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Immortalise
1. [v -ISED, -ISING, -ISES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Immortalise
Literary usage of Immortalise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Portfolio: Monographs on Artistic Subjects by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1894)
"... whom he seems to have intended to immortalise on copper, were Eobanus Hesse,
of whom a woodcut exists from a drawing^ by ..."
2. Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and by Robert Chambers (1876)
"Scott ' fondly hoped to immortalise his native village,' on which he wrote a
poem, Amwell, 1776; but of all his works only the subjoined lines are ..."
3. A History of Edinburgh from the Earliest Period to the Completion of the by John Anderson, of Edinburgh John Anderson (1856)
"... was enough to immortalise any man, and whose power had appeared to be permanent,
the moment he declared against parliamentary reform was hurled from his ..."
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