Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
mythological .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to mythology or to myths.
- adjective based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity; mythical; fabulous.
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- adjective mythology Of or pertaining to
mythology
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity
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Examples
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At the left were more attractions: another menagerie, a heap of ostensible gold representing the five milliards paid by France, a gallery of astonished wax soldiers representing the Franco-Prussian war, a cook-shop with "mythologic" confectionery.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various
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Oh and another thing, the name Gandalf is from a Norwegian mythologic tale.
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Emanuel: Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic (for what I know, or some mythologic nymphs) dancing before Don Miguel — the picture is there still, at the Ajuda; and ah me! where is poor Mig?
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This second principle of Tylor's — “mythologic science” — knew a certain popularity at the beginning of the twentieth century when many scholars tried to decipher and reconstruct the historical data supposedly embedded in the sagas and the epic poetry of ancient medieval peoples.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MIRCEA ELIADE 1968
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Ultimately Tylor distinguishes what he calls “two principles of mythologic science.”
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MIRCEA ELIADE 1968
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Your wisest scholars lose themselves in trying to unthread the mazes and mysteries of those incomprehensible depths of diabolical worship and intertwined beauty and honor, now known only from trebly diminished mythologic reflection.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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The great plain of white sand which is enclosed between the blue lake-like expanses of the two meeting rivers is the Plain of Alms. In truth, there are three rivers which unite here -- the Ganges, the Jumna and the Saravasti -- and this thrice-hallowed spot is known in the Hindu mythologic system as the Triveni.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Various
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In the mythologic tales of the Iroquois, the child appears frequently as
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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The skeleton-key of identification, used even as ably as Dr. Rydberg uses it, will not pick every mythologic lock, though it undoubtedly has opened many hitherto closed.
The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo
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Riddle-making is not left alone by the purveyors of nursery yarns, though belonging to the mythologic state of thought.
A History of Nursery Rhymes Percy B. Green
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