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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
euhemerize .
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Examples
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For example, Osiris was a god, but he was euhemerized by Plutarch.
Mythicism and John the Baptist James F. McGrath 2010
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Thus the whole past comes down euhemerized, cooked, and touched up.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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Toltecs is merely an euhemerized myth, and they are as pure creations of the fancy as the giants and fairies of mediæval romance.
The Annals of the Cakchiquels Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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Thus Madoc ab Owain Gwynedd -- an obscure North Walian princeling whose only factual claim to bardic fame had been his nautical bent and eventual disappearance at sea -- was euhemerized by Tudor propagandists into the pre-Columbian discoverer of America.
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