eternize
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V. last forever, endure forever, go on forever; have no end. eternize, perpetuate.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
Could you but gain the interested, could you eternize rapacity, and preserve inviolate the blot of the English name, what laurels would not your lordship deserve?
From Four Early Pamphlets by William Godwin
We suppose he wants to eternize his Memory by eating a Breakfast.
From The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany Parts 2, 3 and 4 by Maximillian E. Novak
Yet, if his name you'd eternize, And must exalt him to the skies; Without a star this may be done: So Tickell mourn'd his Addison.
From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 by William Ernst Browning
Plate inscribed with a ship's name. eternize Make eternal.
From Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States by William Henry Seward
A woman wove through the sea of red and up to the eternized president, accompanied by a pair of panting golden retrievers.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2019
The sight of the poetry eternized in these statues, took the sting from the thought, arraying it only in poetic ideality.
From The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
We do not want to see Cervantes's days of poverty and struggle eternized in statues.
From Castilian Days by John Hay
The dead are eternized in stone, The living, by living shafts are known.
From Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919 by Northern Nut Growers Association
Thus should heroes be eternized in brass, or granite, or marble, while they are instinct with the glory of action, not when they are aged and fatten and grow bilious and use ear-trumpets.
From Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire by John Augustus O'Shea
Although more enduring than parchment, tombs, pyramids, and temples, it is as far as they from truly eternizing the memory of what man has fancied and done.
From Curiosities of the Sky by Garrett Putman Serviss
These should have some such eternizing epitaph as this: “For four years they kept the fates banded against them uneasy.”
From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed
