The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mythologize \My*thol"o*gize\, v. i. [Cf. F. mythologiser.]
To relate, classify, and explain, or attempt to explain, myths; to write upon myths.
To construct and propagate myths.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive now rare English) To interpret (a story etc.) as mythological; to explain the symbolic meaning of. (from 17th c.) 2 (context intransitive English) To construct a myth or mythology. (from 17th c.) 3 (context transitive English) To make (something or someone) into a myth; to create a legend about. (from 19th c.)
WordNet
v. construct a myth; "The poet mythologized that the King had three sons" [syn: mythologise]
make into a myth; "The Europeans have mythicized Rte. 66" [syn: mythologise, mythicize, mythicise] [ant: demythologize]
Usage examples of "mythologize".
The mythologized biographies of such saviors communicate the messages of their world-transcending wisdom in world-transcending symbols -- which, ironically, are then generally translated back into such verbalized thoughts as built the interior walls in the first place.
Since Israelis mythologized the nature of Lebanon, they also mythologized Bashir Gemayel and his Maronite Phalangist militia, with which they teamed up to fight the PLO in the summer of 1982.
They start mythologizing it all, claimÂing that some day their tribe will fly.
But we've scorned their mythologizing and done whatever we could to separate their quite genuine warnings of impending disaster from their quite preposterous and untenable program for transforming and 'reforming' society.