v. [f. as prec. + -IZE.]
1. trans. To render eternal in duration or character.
1847. A. J. Davis, in Fraser’s Mag., XXXVII. 134. It contains truth eternalised.
1850. R. Montgomery, God & Man, 314. If the body of Jesus is thus substantially eternalised so will the bodies of the righteous be.
1890. J. Martineau, Seat Authority in Relig., IV. iii. 507. His personal manifestation of what God is and loves and eternalizes.
b. hyperbolically. To prolong indefinitely, perpetuate.
1808. Ann. Reg. 1806, 717. The second form of negotiation would eternalize the war.
1855. M. Arnold, Consolation, 63. The hour, whose happy Unalloy’d moments I would eternalize.
1859. Gen. P. Thompson, Audi Alt., II. c. 92. The grandest move … ever made towards eternalizing the supremacy of money at elections.
† 2. To make eternally famous; to immortalize.
1620. Shelton, Quix., II. xliv. 287. And so with his burnt ashes … Don Quixotes valour is eternalized.
1663. Rollock, in Mrq. Worcester’s Water-Comm. Engine, 9. This [the Water-Engine] alone were enough to eternalize his Name to all Ages.
1702. C. Mather, Magn. Chr., IV. iv. (1852), 112. The deaths of the heroes whose lives they have eternalized.
1822. T. Mitchell, Aristoph., I. 112. The gratitude of the Athenians … eternalized the circumstance in songs.
Hence Eternalized ppl. a.
1830. Fraser’s Mag., II. 267. We … have thus, in an article, placed some of the unfortunate gentleman’s productions in an eternalized form.
1884. Congregational Year-bk., 78. It is but His eternalized action.
