/keuhn tem"peuh ruyz'/ , v. , contemporized, contemporizing .
v.t.
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.
v.i.
3. to be contemporary.
Also, esp. Brit., contemporise .
[ 1640-50; contempor- (s. of contemporare to be at the same time), equiv. to con- CON- + tempor- (s. of tempus time) + -IZE ]