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Definition of Contemporize
1. Verb. Happen at the same time.
Generic synonyms: Come About, Fall Out, Go On, Hap, Happen, Occur, Pass, Pass Off, Take Place
Derivative terms: Synchronisation, Synchrony, Synchronization, Synchronizing, Synchrony
2. Verb. Arrange or represent events so that they co-occur. "Synchronize biblical events"
Generic synonyms: Arrange, Order, Put, Set Up
Derivative terms: Synchrony, Synchrony
Definition of Contemporize
1. Verb. To bring up to date; often specifically to set a historical narrative in a modern context ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Contemporize
1. [v -RIZED, -RIZING, -RIZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contemporize
Literary usage of Contemporize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Orthography, Or, The Art of Teaching Spelling by Writing by William Bearcroft (1828)
"contemporize,i' BE. Criticize, B. folio. Crystalize, wB. Crystallize,' * D. w.
PY. ... Penning avoid the contradiction by omitting contemporize, ..."
2. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1904)
"... to the Edinburgh lie- by linking Machiavel as a contemporize*1, London, pp.
36-63 of this the ary with Shakespeare, Bacon, Montaigne, one vo1 . ed., ..."
3. Authors' & Printers' Dictionary: A Guide for Authors, Editors, Printers by Frederick Howard Collins (1912)
"/nor., contra bonos mores (contrary to good manners). contemporize*, not -ise.
contents, abbr. cort.; — (tables of) (typ.), set in lower-case of text type ..."
4. The Works of John Owen by John Owen (1826)
"(Baronius makes the third of Claudius, and the forty-fifth of Christ to contemporize,
but upon a mistake) and some say he abode there a good while, ..."
5. The Theological and Literary Journal (1857)
"The reign of the saints, moreover, is to commence with the reign of Christ, and
contemporize with his. But their reign is not to commence till the judgment ..."
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