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English
Etymology
From memorial + -ise.
Verb
memorialise (third-person singular simple present memorialises, present participle memorialising, simple past and past participle memorialised)
- Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of memorialize.
1848 May–August, [Thomas De Quincey], “Art VI.—The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith. A Biography. In Four Books. By John Forster. London, 1848. [book review]”, in The North British Review, volume IX, Edinburgh: W. P. Kennedy, ; London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co.; Dublin: James M‘Glashan, →OCLC, page 208:he mode and the expression of honour to literature in France has continued to this hour tainted with false and histrionic feeling, because originally it grew up from spurious roots, prospered unnaturally upon deep abuses in the system, and at this day (so far as it still lingers) memorialises the political bondage of the nation.
, volume XXXIV, London: John Murray, published 1865, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:TAIWAN, or Chinese Formosa, is considered a Foo or district of the province of Fokien, and is governed by a Taoutai extraordinary, who, though responsible to the provincial viceroy, possesses the privilege of memorialising the Throne direct.]
2014 October 30, Jack Schofield, “What happens to your Facebook account when you die?”, in The Guardian:There are two options: you can get Facebook to delete your late wife’s account or to memorialise it.
2021 November 28, Jon Henley, “Dancer, singer … spy: France’s Panthéon to honour Josephine Baker”, in The Guardian:President Emmanuel Macron decided this summer that 46 years after her death, Baker would become only the sixth woman to be memorialised in the Panthéon in a ceremony on 30 November – the anniversary of the marriage to Jean Lion that allowed her to acquire French nationality.