mythologize

English edit

Etymology edit

From mythology +‎ -ize, after Middle French mythologiser.

Pronunciation edit

(UK) IPA^(key): /mɪˈθɒlədʒʌɪz/

Verb 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.]

Hyponyms edit

legendrize

Related terms edit

demythologize

Translations edit

Translations

Catalan: mitologitzar (ca)
French: mythologiser (fr)
Russian: мифологизи́ровать (ru) (mifologizírovatʹ)
Spanish: mitologizar
Swedish: mytologisera (sv)
Ukrainian: міфологізува́ти (mifolohizuváty)