Why this word is great
BOSWELLIZE — [Verb] To document a life with exhaustively intimate and reverent detail, as in a devoted biography. From the proper name Boswell (referring to James Boswell, the biographer of Samuel Johnson) and the English suffix -ize (forming verbs meaning "to act in the manner of"). Unlike "eulogize," which elevates with formal, often posthumous praise, or "chronicle," which neutrally records events in sequence, to Boswellize is to construct a monument from the accretion of daily minutiae. It is the scrupulous notation of muttered prejudices over breakfast, the preservation of a coffee-stained napkin as a holy relic, and the patient transcription of a midnight monologue by firelight. We are left with the quiet ache of a finished shrine, knowing such fidelity is itself a form of love, a testament to the faith that a life, fully annotated, can be saved from oblivion.