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
Chaucer is himself the great poetical observer of men, who in every age is born to record and eternize its acts.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones
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
And if my tongue eternize can your praise, Or silly speech increase your worthy fame, If ought I can, to heaven your worth can raise, The age to come shall wonder at the same.
From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia by Martha Foote Crow
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
Is not their memory eternized in one of John Foster's most ponderous pieces of sarcasm?
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by
They built up, through their wisdom and patriotism, monuments which have eternized their names.
From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by L. E. (Lucius Eugene) Chittenden
The dead are eternized in stone, The living, by living shafts are known.
From Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919 by Northern Nut Growers Association
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
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