eternize

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He has painted forth his little humours, his individual feelings, and eternised himself to his readers.

From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Disraeli, Isaac

The traces of these springs, eternised by the name, are thought not quite to have dried up yet, though they have ceased to well so freely as of old.

From The Danish History, Books I-IX by Saxo, Grammaticus

You'll tell me his name shall live; and that now being dead his works have eternised him, and made him divine: but could this divinity feed him while he lived? could his name feast him?

From The Poetaster by Jonson, Ben

To his contemporaries he was the "well languaged," the "sharp conceited," one by whose verse Rosamond was eternised, one who "divinely sonnetted his Delia."

From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana by Crow, Martha Foote