eternize (eterniz)

t.; pret. and pp. eter nized, ppr. eternizing. [ Where is the fame Which the vainglorious mighty of the earth Seek to eternize! Shelley, Queen Mab, iii. 2. To prolong the existence or duration of indefinitely; perpetuate. With two fair gifts Created him endow'd; with happine , And immortality; that fondly lost, This other served but to eternize woe. Milton, P. L., xi. 60. 3. To make forever famous; immortalize: as, to eternize the exploits of heroes. Julius Cæsar was noe le diligent to eternize his name be the pen then be the suord. A. Hume , Orthographie (E. E. T. S.), Ded., p. 2. The Queen Philippa added one thing more to the eternising of her husband's and son's famous and renowned valours. Eng . Stratagem (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 608). My verse your vertues rare shall eternize . Spenser , Sonnets, lxxv. Also spelled eternise . eternne t (e-tèrn'nes), n . [Early mod. E. eterne e; Nares . eternne Corruption and eterne e at one time, And in one subject, let together, loo e? Chapman, Byron's Tragedy.