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
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.]
• 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
2 October 2024
(verb) allow to go out of sight or mind; “The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light”; “lose the crowds by climbing a mountain”; “the lost tribe”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
