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immortalise

vb. 1 (label en British spelling transitive) To give unending life to, to make immortal. 2 (context transitive English) To make eternally famous.

WordNet
immortalise
  1. v. be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead" [syn: commemorate, memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, record]

  2. make famous for ever [syn: immortalize, eternize, eternise, eternalize, eternalise]

Usage examples of "immortalise".

In the days when Theeo had been a growing dream, an idea taking form to immortalise Tynar, eleven men had been killed.

One mandarin has his name immortalised by his failure to appreciate the tea of this great master.

Raquel, immortalised in oils before her tits sagged beyond all hope of support.

She might have paraphrased the mental attitude of the immortalised Peter Bell into A basket underneath a tree A yellow tiger is to me, If it is nothing more.

English noblewoman dead for over four and a half centuries, immortalised in paint by a German genius.

There is no more extraordinary instance of this than the case of Catherine Hayes, immortalised by Thackeray, which occurred as long ago as the year 1726.

Foxe with disappointment, the man wanted to look like every other rich man and petty noble immortalised on canvas that season.

A certain earl in the wilds of Northumberland wanted his latest mistress immortalised on canvas.

I will not endeavour to delineate my feelings as I contemplated the ruins of the house where dwelt the lady whom the amorous Petrarch immortalised in his verse--verse made to move a heart of stone: "Morte bella parea nel suo bel viso" I threw myself with arms outstretched upon the ground as if I would embrace the very stones.

I am a knight-errant, and not one of those whose names Fame has never thought of immortalising in her record, but of those who, in defiance and in spite of envy itself, and all the magicians that Persia, or Brahmans that India, or Gymnosophists that Ethiopia ever produced, will place their names in the temple of immortality, to serve as examples and patterns for ages to come, whereby knights-errant may see the footsteps in which they must tread if they would attain the summit and crowning point of honour in arms.

In the various arts and intellectual occupations, there is a degree of proficiency sufficient for living by it, and there is a higher degree on which depend the great productions which immortalise a name.

For a long time, she had actually believed that the Seven Great Qualities immortalised by the sacrifice of the Minutemen and the Foragers, and now said to be enshrined in the First Family, were the guidelines by which everybody should live.