mythologize

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/mɪˈθɒlədʒʌɪz/ (UK)

Definition of mythologize

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verb

(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[…].”

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verb

(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[…].”
(intransitive)To construct a myth or mythology.
(transitive)To make (something or someone) into a myth; to create a legend about.

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From mythology + -ize, after Middle French mythologiser.

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