Definition of "mythologize"
verb
third-person singular simple present mythologizes, present participle mythologizing, simple past and past participle mythologized
(transitive, now rare) To interpret (a story etc.) as mythological; to explain the symbolic meaning of.
Quotations
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 […].
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 10, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […]