contemporize

contemporize
/keuhn tem"peuh ruyz'/, v., contemporized, contemporizing.
v.t.
1. to place in or regard as belonging to the same age or time.
2. to give a modern or contemporary character or setting to; update: The new production of Romeo and Juliet contemporizes it as the love of two modern teenagers in a Chicago high school.
v.i.
3. to be contemporary.
Also, esp. Brit., contemporise.
[1640-50; < LL contempor- (s. of contemporare to be at the same time), equiv. to con- CON- + tempor- (s. of tempus time) + -IZE]

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