immortalise

Verb

immortalise (third-person singular simple present immortalises, present participle immortalising, simple past and past participle immortalised)

1. To give unending life to, to make immortal.
   • 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.1790, William Cowper, “On the Receipt of My Mother’s Picture out of Norfolk. The Gift of My Cousin Ann Bodham.”, in Poems […], London: […] [F]or J[oseph] Johnson, […] by T[homas] Bensley, […]...
2. To make eternally famous.
   • His heroic deeds were immortalised in song and tale.
   • There is a local rhyme which says:
     Culbone, Oare and Stoke Pero
     Are three such places as you seldom hear o'.
     Stoke Pero and Culbone are equally remote hamlets, respectively 5 miles south-east and 2½ miles east of Oare, a village of which few would have heard had not Blackmore [(R. D. Blackmore)]...1980, AA Book of English Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 302, about Oare