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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ETER'NIZE, v.t. [Low L. 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.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: cause to continue indefinitely
2: make famous forever; "This melody immortalized its composer" [syn: immortalize, immortalise, eternize, eternise, eternalize, eternalise]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-nized; -nizing) Date: 1566 1. a. to make eternal b. to prolong indefinitely 2. immortalize • eternization noun

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Eternize E*ter"nize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Eternized; p. pr. & vb. n. Eterniziing.] [Cf. F. ['e]terniser.] 1. To make eternal or endless. This other [gift] served but to eternize woe. --Milton. 2. To make forever famous; to immortalize; as, to eternize one's self, a name, exploits. St. Alban's battle won by famous York, Shall be eternized in all age to come. --Shak.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Make eternal (in the several senses), confer eternity upon, carry to eternity. 2. Perpetuate, make perpetual. 3. Immortalize, make forever famous, make immortal.