mythologize
English
Etymology
From mythology + -ize, after Middle French mythologiser.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /mɪˈθɒlədʒʌɪz/
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, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 10, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- 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 […].
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- (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
Related terms
- demythologize