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Immortalize   /ɪmˈɔrtəlaɪz/   Listen
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Immortalize  v. t.  (past & past part. immortalized; pres. part. immortalizing)  
1.
To render immortal; to cause to live or exist forever.
2.
To exempt from oblivion; to perpetuate in fame. "Alexander had no Homer to immortalize his guilty name."



Immortalize  v. i.  To become immortal. (R.)






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"Immortalize" Quotes from Famous Books



... take up this matter, for hunting is an imitation of war and an apprenticeship to it. It certainly can find no justification in any of the great world religions, and not even the British, or the Germans, who idolize soldiers, would immortalize a man simply because he was a hunter. From whatever point the subject be viewed it seems undeniable that hunting is only a ...
— America Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat • Wu Tingfang

... christianize civilize colonize criticize crystallize demoralize dogmatize economize emphasize epitomize equalize eulogize evangelize extemporize familiarize fertilize fossilize fraternize galvanize generalize gormandize harmonize immortalize italicize jeopardize legalize liberalize localize magnetize memorialize mesmerize metamorphize methodize minimize modernize monopolize moralize nationalize naturalize neutralize organize ostracize paralyze ...
— Division of Words • Frederick W. Hamilton

... idea as the following: 'That, however distressing this expedition will have proved to individuals, and expensive to the country, the pleasing spirit which it has drawn forth in support of law and government will immortalize the American character, and is a happy presage that future attempts, of a certain description of people, to disturb the public tranquillity will prove ...
— Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. • Benson J. Lossing

... set store by, celebrate, Approve, esteem, endow with soul, Commend, acclaim, appreciate, Immortalize, laud, praise, extol. ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various

... give your intimation the binding force of an oracular word!—in a few months, please God, at most, I shall have wife, house, and home wherewith and wherein to return your former hospitality. And if I could draw my prophet and his prophetess to brighten and immortalize my lodge, and make it the window through which for a summer you should look out on a field which Columbus and Berkeley and Lafayette did not scorn to sow, my sun should shine clearer and life would promise something better than peace. There is a part of ethics, or in Schleiermacher's distribution ...
— The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, - 1834-1872, Vol. I • Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson


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