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Webster 1913 Edition
Mythologize
My-thol′o-gize
,Verb.
I.
[Cf. F.
mythologiser
.] 1.
To relate, classify, and explain, or attempt to explain, myths; to write upon myths.
2.
To construct and propagate myths.
Webster 1828 Edition
Mythologize
MYTHOL'OGIZE
,Verb.
I.
Definition 2024
mythologize
mythologize
English
Verb
mythologize (third-person singular simple present mythologizes, present participle mythologizing, simple past and past participle mythologized)
- (transitive, now rare) To interpret (a story etc.) as mythological; to explain the symbolic meaning of. [from 17th c.]
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.10:
- Most of Æsopes fables have divers senses, and severall interpretations: Those which Mythologize them, chuse some kinde of colour well-suting with the fable; but for the most part, it is no more than the first and superficiall glosse […].
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.10:
- (intransitive) To construct a myth or mythology. [from 17th c.]
- (transitive) To make (something or someone) into a myth; to create a legend about. [from 19th c.]
Hyponyms
- legendrize