immortalise

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.

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)] immortalised it.