mythify

mythify
mythification /mith'euh fi kay"sheuhn/, n.
/mith"euh fuy'/, v.t., mythified, mythifying.
to create a myth about (a person, place, tradition, etc.); cause to become a myth.
[1905-10; MYTH + -IFY]

* * *


Universalium. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем решить контрольную работу

Look at other dictionaries:

  • mythify — myth·i·fy …   English syllables

  • mythify — ˈmithəˌfī transitive verb ( ed/ ing/ es) Etymology: myth + ify : to make myth of : give a mythical cast to …   Useful english dictionary

  • allegorize — Synonyms and related words: account for, allude to, assume, bring to mind, clarify, clear up, connote, crack, decipher, demonstrate, demythologize, elucidate, enlighten, entail, euhemerize, exemplify, explain, explain away, explicate, exposit,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • fictionalize — Synonyms and related words: allegorize, coin, conceit, conceive, conceptualize, concoct, create, dream up, experience imaginatively, fable, fabricate, fabulize, fancy, fantasize, hatch, ideate, imagine, invent, mold, mythicize, mythify,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • mythicize — Synonyms and related words: allegorize, fable, fabulize, fictionalize, mythify, mythologize, narrate, novelize, recite, recount, rehearse, relate, report, retell, romance, storify, tell, tell a story, unfold a tale …   Moby Thesaurus

  • narrate — Synonyms and related words: allegorize, chronicle, descant, describe, detail, dilate, discourse, expatiate, fable, fabulize, fictionalize, mythicize, mythify, mythologize, novelize, recite, recount, rehearse, relate, repeat, report, retail,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • recite — Synonyms and related words: add up, affirm, allege, allegorize, assert, asseverate, aver, battologize, cast up, chronicle, cipher up, commit to memory, con, count, count up, debate, declaim, declare, demagogue, describe, detail, elocute,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • recount — Synonyms and related words: account, accounts, add up, allegorize, battologize, body count, capitulation, cast up, census, cipher up, communicate, count, count up, describe, detail, election returns, enumerate, fable, fabulize, fictionalize,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • rehearse — Synonyms and related words: add up, allegorize, announce, apprentice, battologize, break, break in, break the news, breed, bring up, bring word, cast up, cipher up, condition, count up, cultivate, describe, detail, develop, discipline, drill,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • relate — Synonyms and related words: add up, affect, affirm, allege, allegorize, ally, analogize, announce, answer, answer to, appertain, appertain to, apply, apply to, approach, ascribe, assert, asseverate, assign, assimilate, associate, aver, balance,… …   Moby Thesaurus

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”