contemporize

[ kuhn-tem-puh-rahyz ]

verb (used with object)

, con·tem·po·rized, con·tem·po·riz·ing.

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.

verb (used without object)

, con·tem·po·rized, con·tem·po·riz·ing.

1. to be contemporary.

contemporize

/ kənˈtɛmpəˌraɪz /

verb

1. to be or make contemporary; synchronize

Word History and Origins

Origin of contemporize¹

1640–50; < Late Latin contempor- (stem of contemporāre to be at the same time), equivalent to con- con- + tempor- (stem of tempus time) + -ize