immortalise

• immortalize (US, Oxford British English)

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

• IPA^(key): /ɪ.ˈmɔː(ɹ).tə.ˌlaɪz/

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: […] [F]or J[oseph] Johnson, […] by T[homas] 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.

• immortalisation

• memorialist

• Homophones: immortalisent, immortalises

immortalise

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