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contemporise - 2 dictionary results

con⋅tem⋅po⋅rize

   [kuhn-tem-puh-rahyz]
verb, -rized, -riz⋅ing.
–verb (used with object)
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)
3. to be contemporary.
Also, especially British, con⋅tem⋅po⋅rise.

Origin:
1640–50; < LL contempor- (s. of contemporāre to be at the same time), equiv. to con- con- + tempor- (s. of tempus time) + -ize
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contemporise

verb
1. happen at the same time [syn: synchronize] 
2. arrange or represent events so that they co-occur; "synchronize biblical events" [syn: synchronize] 

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