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contemporize

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con⋅tem⋅po⋅rize

  [kuhn-tem-puh-rahyz] verb, -rized, -riz⋅ing.
Use contemporize in a Sentence
–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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con·tem·po·rize   (kən-těm'pə-rīz')   
v.   con·tem·po·rized, con·tem·po·riz·ing, con·tem·po·riz·es

v.   tr.

  1. To regard or place in the same time period; synchronize.

  2. To make modern or contemporary, as in style or décor.

v.   intr.
To be contemporary.

[From contemporary.]
con·tem'po·ri·za'tion (-těm'pər-ĭ-zā'shən) n.
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