| 释义 |
mysticize, v.|ˈmɪstɪsaɪz|
[f. mystic a. + -ize.]
trans. To render mystical; to introduce a mystical element into, give a mystic meaning to.
1680Dodwell On Sanchoniathon (1691) 66 By Mysticizing the κοσµογονία of Moses to a sense not very distant from that received among the wisest Philosophers. 1827G. S. Faber Sacr. Cal. Prophecy (1844) I. 49 They thus agree in the point of mysticising the prophetic day. 1830S. R. Maitland Twelve Hundred & Sixty Days 46 You are obliged to get rid of the days, and to mysticise all the periods. 1903Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. XXIII. 313 Not even an Orphic attempted to mysticize the shovel or the fork.
Hence ˈmysticizing ppl. a.
1842G. S. Faber Prov. Lett. (1844) II. 23 His fancifully mysticising plan of a cathedral. 1879Farrar St. Paul II. xxxvii. 227 St. Paul's methods..involve a mysticising idealisation of 1,500 years of history. |