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contemporize
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con·tem·po·rize  (kn-tmp-rz)
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·tempo·ri·zation (-tmpr--zshn) n.
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Verb1.contemporize - happen at the same time
hap, happen, occur, come about, take place, go on, pass off, fall out, pass - come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"
2.contemporize - arrange or represent events so that they co-occur; "synchronize biblical events"
arrange, order, put, set up - arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events; "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times"

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On a different note altogether is ``ShakespeaRe-Told,'' a series of films contemporizing four of the playwright's plays, jettisoning their dialogue for a modern idiom just as films like ``Clueless'' and ``10 Things I Hate About You'' have.
The basic analogy of "old house" and "old text" both in need of contemporizing sets the theme: the old is both valued and in need of functional adaptation.
But before contemporizing Ill Newes, let's be sure that we understand John Clarke and his masterpiece.
 
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