MYTHOLOGIZE

mythologize, mythologise, mythicize, mythicise

(verb) make into a myth; “The Europeans have mythicized Rte. 66”

mythologize, mythologise

(verb) construct a myth; “The poet mythologized that the King had three sons”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

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.]

(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

Source: Wiktionary


My*thol"o*gize, v. i. Etym: [Cf. F. mythologiser.]

1. To relate, classify, and explain, or attempt to explain, myths; to write upon myths.

2. To construct and propagate myths.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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