1778 R. Potter Notes Tragedies Æschylus 523 They [sc. the Greek writers] were indeed enough acquainted with Egypt to acquire from thence a turn for mythologizing.

1880 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 399/1 Barren mythologizings.

1913 A. S. Palmer in R. M. Dorson Peasant Customs (1968) I. 177 This primitive signification of the word would, in later times, readily lend itself to the mythologizing process.

1959 ELH 26 173 No Elizabethan would have missed the transparent mythologizing, the obvious implication that Orgoglio is the mythical embodiment of an earthquake.

1987 Q Oct. 10/1 Given the propensity towards sensationalism and romantic mythologising in both the film and pop music industries, the average showbiz biopic is a dubious affair.

1867 F. M. Müller Chips from German Workshop II. xvii. 154 Crime itself was called, in the later mythologizing language, the daughter of Night.

1876 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets 2nd Ser. v. 132 The polytheistic and mythologising instincts of the race.

1902 Amer. Hist. Rev. 7 331 The mystic interpretations of curiosity hunters and mythologizing visionaries.

1953 Mind 62 47 The mythologising form in which he usually expressed his thoughts on the structure of the universe.

1989 K. Miller Authors (BNC) 138 [Philip] Roth has left off with his mythologising fury.