mythologize
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[edit]From mythology + -ize, after Middle French mythologiser.
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[edit]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, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 10, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- 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 […].
- (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.]
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