mysticize

American  

[mis-tuh-sahyz] / ˈmɪs təˌsaɪz /

especially British, mysticise

verb (used with object)

mysticized, mysticizing

1. to make mystical; give mystical meaning to.

   to mysticize natural phenomena.

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verb (used without object)

mysticized, mysticizing

1. to speak or write on mystical subjects.

Other Word Forms

• unmysticize
  verb (used with object)

Etymology

Origin of mysticize

First recorded in 1670–80; mystic + -ize

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

mysticize mysticized mysticizing

Had he been disposed to mysticize and to shroud himself in "impenetrable darkness," he would have found it difficult to indulge that propensity in French.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 by Various

The traits that were at all tolerable were idealized; those that were intolerable were either expurgated, or, if that was impossible, were mysticized and explained away.

From Five Stages of Greek Religion by Murray, Gilbert

But as the paintball scene helps establish early, the series forgoes the usual reductive clichés about reservation life — the show is neither pitying, nor mysticizing — in favor of a nuanced and comic realism.

From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2021

The accounts of the later Greeks are tainted by their philosophizing and mysticizing spirit.

From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various