Mythologize definitions

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MYTHOL'OGIZE, v.i. To relate or explain the fabulous history of the heathen.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: construct a myth; "The poet mythologized that the King had three sons" [syn: mythologize, mythologise]
2: make into a myth; "The Europeans have mythicized Rte. 66" [syn: mythologize, mythologise, mythicize, mythicise] [ant: demythologise, demythologize]

Merriam Webster's

verb (-gized; -gizing) Date: 1603 transitive verb 1. obsolete to explain the mythological significance of 2. to build a myth around ; mythicize intransitive verb 1. to relate, classify, and explain myths 2. to create or perpetuate myths • mythologizer noun

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mythologize My*thol"o*gize, v. i. [Cf. F. mythologiser.] 1. To relate, classify, and explain, or attempt to explain, myths; to write upon myths. 2. To construct and propagate myths.