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mythicize, v.|ˈmɪθɪsaɪz|
[f. mythic + -ize.]
trans. To turn into myth; to interpret mythically.
1840W. H. Mill Observ. i. 58 Christ's death..his resurrection..are so mythicized as to drop the substance, making them ‘no individual, but a divine and eternal history’. 1863Sat. Rev. 199 An English Bunsen or Strauss..may mythicize or transcendentalize either the Old Testament or the New. 1891T. K. Cheyne Orig. Psalter 323 The storm-wind (mythicized sometimes as the cherub).
Hence ˈmythicized ppl. a.; ˈmythicizing vbl. n. and ppl. a. Also ˈmythicizer.
1840W. H. Mill. Observ. i. 4 The prepossession..with which the recent mythicizer of the Gospel undertakes his task. Ibid. 24 That mythicizing process. 1871Farrar Witn. Hist. i. 25 If the Resurrection be merely a spiritual idea, or a mythicised hallucination. 1893Fairbairn Christ in Mod. Theol. i. ii. iii. §4. 271 The unconsciously creative mythicizing imagination. |