Definition of Mythologize

1. Verb. Construct a myth. "The poet mythologized that the King had three sons"

Exact synonyms: Mythologise
Generic synonyms: Cook Up, Fabricate, Invent, Make Up, Manufacture

2. Verb. Make into a myth. "The Europeans have mythicized Rte. 66"
Exact synonyms: Mythicise, Mythicize, Mythologise
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Derivative terms: Mythologisation, Myth, Mythologization, Mythology, Mythology
Antonyms: Demythologize

Definition of Mythologize

1. v. i. To relate, classify, and explain, or attempt to explain, myths; to write upon myths.

Definition of Mythologize

1. Verb. (context: transitive now rare) To interpret (a story etc.) as mythological; to explain the symbolic meaning of. (defdate from 17th c.) ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To construct a myth or mythology. (defdate from 17th c.) ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To make (something or someone) into a myth; to create a legend about. (defdate from 19th c.) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mythologize

1. [v -GIZED, -GIZING, -GIZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mythologize

mythologians
mythologic
mythological
mythologically
mythologies
mythologisation
mythologise
mythologised
mythologises
mythologising
mythologist
mythologists
mythologizable
mythologization
mythologizations
mythologize
mythologized
mythologizer
mythologizers
mythologizes
mythologizing
mythologue
mythologues
mythology
mythomania
mythomaniac
mythomaniacal
mythomaniacs
mythomanias
mythopeic

Literary usage of Mythologize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the by Raymond Wilson Chambers (1921)
"But I think that any further attempt to proceed, from this, to mythologize the deeds of Beowulf the Geat, is pure conjecture, and probably quite fruitless ..."

2. Author's & Printer's Dictionary: A Guide for Authors by Frederick Howard Collins (1912)
"... the wrong or too frequent use of "m," not me-. myth., mythology, -ical. mythologize, etc., not -ise. mythopoeic.myth-making, ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... a personal significance ; but none of the attempts hitherto made to mythologize it (as by Popper, who sees in the wrestling Jacob the Asiatic Hercules, ..."

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