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Mythologize

//mɪˈθɒlədʒʌɪz// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To interpret (a story etc.) as mythological; to explain the symbolic meaning of. archaic, transitive

    "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[…]."

  2. 2
    make into a myth wordnet
  3. 3
    To construct a myth or mythology. intransitive
  4. 4
    construct a myth wordnet
  5. 5
    To make (something or someone) into a myth; to create a legend about. transitive

Etymology

From mythology + -ize, after Middle French mythologiser.

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