mythologize

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

mythologize
    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}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To construct and propagate myths.
      [1913 Webster]

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