mythologize en · VERB
Pronunciation
- /mɪˈθɒlədʒʌɪz/ (UK)
Etymology
From mythology + -ize, after Middle French mythologiser.
Meanings
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(archaic, transitive) To interpret (a story etc.) as mythological; to explain the symbolic meaning of.
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, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 10, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- (intransitive) To construct a myth or mythology.
- (transitive) To make (something or someone) into a myth; to create a legend about.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| mythologized | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| mythologized | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| mythologizes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| mythologizing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
Deriveds
remythologize · mythologization · mythologizable · mythologizer
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Translations (6)
fr mythologiser (Translations) · ca mitologitzar (Translations) · es mitologizar (Translations) · ru мифологизи́ровать (Translations) · sv mytologisera (Translations) · uk міфологізува́ти (Translations)