α. 1600s contemporise, 1600s 1800s– contemporize, 1900s– contemperize.
β. 1800s cotemporize (rare).
contemporizev.
/kənˈtɛmpərʌɪz/, U.S. /kənˈtɛmpəˌraɪz/ 1. † a. intransitive. To exist or occur at the same time as another event, situation, etc.; to exist or occur together in time; to synchronize with something. Obsolete.
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the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > be simultaneous [verb (intransitive)]
convene?1541
concur1596
synchronizec1624
contemporatea1638
contemporize1643
coincidate1657
conterminate1664
tryst1669
coexista1676
coincide1809
date1821
simultane1897
co-occur1957
1643 R. More tr. J. Mede Key Revelation 12 The pourings out of the Phials doth contemporize [L. contemporat] with the ending of the Beast and Babylon.
1677 J. Owen Reason of Faith 31 It [sc. the Bible] was first written in the very infancy of the Babylonian Empire, with which it afterwards contemporized about 900 years.
1734 S. Rudd Ess. Doctr. Resurrection, Millennium & Judgm. 139 The..grand distinguishing marks of this epocha, I mean, the binding of Satan, and the reign of the saints; for both contemporize.
1854 Theol. & Lit. Jrnl. Apr. 529 It is foretold that his coming is to contemporize with the restoration of the Israelites to their national land.
b. transitive. To regard (a person or thing) as belonging to the same era or period as another. Also: to synchronize (a thing) with a particular action, event, etc. Frequently with with (formerly also †unto). Now rare.
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the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > be simultaneous with [verb (transitive)] > make simultaneous or contemporary
contemporize1646
superimpose1796
synchronize1806
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. xi. 44 The indifferencie of their existences contemporised unto our actions, admits a farther consideration. View more context for this quotation
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) xiv. §1. 308 Be sure to Quadrate or Contemporize your observations..with the season of the year.
1861 D. H. Haigh Anglo-Saxon Sagas i. 4 The process is inconceivable by which the great Attila of history could be cotemporized with Hermanaric.
1947 Record-Argus (Greenville, Pa.) 9 Sept. 7/7 The..shock of realizing that a writer I had mentally contemporized with Horatio Alger Jr., and G. A. Henty was still alive.
1974 Jrnl. Biblical Lit. 93 195 The accessions of Jotham and Ahaz in Judah..are contemporized with a reign of Pekah beginning in 752.
2. transitive. To modernize (something); to bring up to date. Also intransitive.
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1920 G. C. Fiske Luicilius & Horace i. 28 Horace..gathered the themes of many of his satires as Shakespeare did the plots of his plays..then..contemporized them with such perfection of literary art as to mirror in his satires and epistles both the everyday life and the higher aesthetic and social ideals of the Augustan age.
1970 Jacksonville (Illinois) Courier 4 Nov. 17/8 The campaign chest furniture designed by Bernhardt and others contemporizes the traditional look.
1989 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 31 Dec. (Late ed.) (Arts & Leisure section) 23/1 The work of these musicians also reflects the urge to contemporize, to bring the past into the present.
2012 BusinessWorld (Nexis) 4 June Waiting too long to contemporize your business can prove to be a fatal mistake.
Derivatives
conˈtemporized adj. that has been made contemporary; modernized, brought up to date.
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1899 Philos. Rev. 8 47 Their present environment..is so obviously at once the recapitulated but contemporized past and the anticipated but contemporized future.
1995 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 16 Nov. d21/3 Morriss' debut runs a gamut from the contemporized '60s soul groove of the title song to powerful pop ballads.
2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 5 Jan. a15/1 In Greenwich Village, there is Bowlmor Lanes, a front-runner among the contemporized [bowling] alleys that was restyled under new ownership in 1997.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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