eternize

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ETER'NIZE, verb transitive [Low Latin oeterno.] 1. To make endless. 2. To continue the existence or duration of indefinitely; to perpetuate; as, to eternize woe. So we say, to eternize fame or glory. 3. To make forever famous; to immortalize; as, to eternize a name; to eternize exploits.
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