mythologizeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /mɪˈθɒlədʒʌɪz/

動詞

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

1. (transitive, now rare) To interpret (a story etc.) as mythological; to explain the symbolic meaning of. [from 17th c.]
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 10, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     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 […].

2. (intransitive) To construct a myth or mythology. [from 17th c.]
3. (transitive) To make (something or someone) into a myth; to create a legend about. [from 19th c.]

下位語

• legendrize

派生語

関連する語

• demythologize