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mythologise

mythologise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of mythologize.

Meaning of mythologize

Verb

mythologize (third-person singular simple present mythologizes, present participle mythologizing, simple past and past participle mythologized)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To interpret (a story etc.) as mythological; to explain the symbolic meaning of.
    • 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[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 10, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
  2. (intransitive) To construct a myth or mythology.
  3. (transitive) To make (something or someone) into a myth; to create a legend about.

Forms of mythologise

third-person singular presentmythologises
present participlemythologising
past participlemythologised
pastmythologised

Words formed from mythologise

Questions about mythologise

What is mythologise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Mythologise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of mythologize.

Words near mythologise in the dictionary

  1. mythological
  2. mythologically
  3. mythologies
  4. mythologisation
  5. mythologisations
  6. mythologise
  7. mythologised
  8. mythologiser
  9. mythologisers
  10. mythologises
  11. mythologising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mythologise (page history and authors); mythologize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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