英和和英

語源

memorial +‎ -ize

動詞

memorialize (三人称単数 現在形 memorializes, 現在分詞 memorializing, 過去形および過去分詞形 memorialized) (米国用法 spelling, Oxford 英国用法 English)

1. (US) To provide a memorial for someone; to commemorate.
   • 2021 November 28, Jon Henley, “Dancer, singer … spy: France’s Panthéon to honour Josephine Baker”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     President Emmanuel Macron decided this summer that 46 years after her death, Baker would become only the sixth woman to be memorialised in the Panthéon in a ceremony on 30 November – the anniversary of the marriage to Jean Lion that allowed her to acquire French nationality.

2. (transitive, social media) To convert (someone’s profile) into a memorial site/page (e.g. on Facebook).
   • 2015 May 20, J. D. Biersdorfer, “Unlike You, Your Facebook Account Can Be Immortal”, in The New York Times‎^[2], ISSN 0362-4331:

     Facebook says people with memorialized accounts do not appear in advertisements or birthday reminders on the site and are also excluded from the People You May Know list of friend suggestions.

3. (law) To create a written record of a meeting or conversation.
4. (transitive, dated) To petition with a memorial, or statement of facts.
   • 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, OCLC 83401042:

     Why, you'll—you'll ask till they tell you. Then you'll memorialize that Department (according to regular forms which you'll find out) for leave to memorialize this Department.

派生語

• memorialization
• memorializer