Mythologize \My*thol"o*gize\, v. i. [Cf. F. mythologiser.] 1. To relate, classify, and explain, or attempt to explain, myths; to write upon myths.
2. To construct and propagate myths.
Efforts both to secularize and "to mythologize the Christmas story" are robbing it of basic meaning, reducing it "to little more than an elaborate fable," he says.