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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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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

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