immortalise

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See also: immortalisé

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Etymology

From immortal +‎ -ise. Perhaps modelled on Middle French immortaliser.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪˈmɔː(ɹ).təˌlaɪz/

Verb

immortalise (third-person singular simple present immortalises, present participle immortalising, simple past and past participle immortalised) (non-Oxford British English, transitive)

  1. To give unending life to, to make immortal.
    • 1790, William Cowper, “On the Receipt of My Mother’s Picture out of Norfolk. The Gift of My Cousin Ann Bodham.”, in Poems , London: or J Johnson, by T Bensley, , published 1806, →OCLC, page 579:
      The meek intelligence of thoſe dear eyes / (Bleſt be the art that can immortalize, / The art that baffles time's tyrannic claim / To quench it) here ſhines on me ſtill the ſame.
  2. To make eternally famous.
    His heroic deeds were immortalised in song and tale.
    • 2013 May 15, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian‎:
      The clocks at either end of the stadium had just ticked past 92 minutes when Branislav Ivanovic made the run that will immortalise him in Chelsea's history.

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Verb

immortalise

  1. inflection of immortaliser:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative
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