eternize
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Many there were who sought to eternize their own Names by honouring his; some by Elegies, and other Devices, amongst the rest one made this Anagram upon his name.
From The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) by William Riley Parker
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
Live she for ever, and her royall p'laces 580 Be fild with praises of divinest wits, That her eternize with their heavenlie writs!
From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Edmund Spenser
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
Being his next voyage to that to Nombre de Dios, formerly imprinted ... offered ... especially for the stirring up of heroick spirits, to benefit their country and eternize their names by like bold attempts.
From The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century by Clarence Henry Haring
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
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
We do not want to see Cervantes's days of poverty and struggle eternized in statues.
From Castilian Days by John Hay
Let dead names be eternized in dead stone, But living names by living shafts be known.
From Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan
Therefore at least admit us liberty, Even as thou hop'st to be eternized By living Asia's mighty emperor.
From Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1 by Christopher Marlowe
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
