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Definition of Eternise
1. Verb. Make famous forever. "This melody immortalized its composer"
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Definition of Eternise
1. to eternize [v -NISED, -NISING, -NISES] - See also: eternize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eternise
Literary usage of Eternise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Life of William Shakespeare by Sidney Lee (1898)
"7), embodied the vaunt in such lines as: While thus my pen strives to eternise
thee (Idea xliv. 1). Ensuing ages yet my rhymes shall cherish (ib. xliv. u). ..."
2. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"And might eternise his name's memorie ? Bp И,.'/'., Sátira. For, God would, from
eternity and before all worlds, create all men in the world, ..."
3. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by William Carew Hazlitt, Robert Dodsley (1874)
"And though these dark times should forget thy praise, An age will come that shall
eternise it. Bid me farewell, and speak it in a word. MAT. ..."
4. Horace by Horace, Philip Francis, Phaedrus (1831)
"Thy monumental honors, big with fame, And in her festal annals eternise thy name
1 O thou, where Sol with varied rays 5 The ..."
5. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1847)
"... eternise his own name, to be immortal by the benefit of scholars ; for when
his friends were dead, walls decayed, and all inscriptions gone, ..."
6. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"... to make known the unknown present, but to eternise the known past; and vividness
and authenticity of description are not among the essentials of such a ..."
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