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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

eternize en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle French éterniser.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To make or render eternal.
  2. (transitive) To prolong indefinitely.
  3. (transitive) To immortalize; to make eternally famous.
    • My verse your virtues rare shall eternize […] 1595, Edmund Spenser, Sonnet LXXV:
    • at leaſt admit vs libertie, Euen as thou hopſt to be eternized, By liuing Aſias mightie Emperour. c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
eternizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
eternizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
eternized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
eternized Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

eternization

Translations (1)

bg увековечавам (To make or render eternal)