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mythic, a.|ˈmɪθɪk|
[ad. late L. mȳthic-us, a. Gr. µῡθ-ικός, f. µῦθος mythus: see -ic. Cf. F. mythique.]
= mythical.
1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. ii. i. 2 Mythic, or Fabulous, Theologie, at first broached by the Poets. 1699Baker Refl. Learning x. 110 The times before these were the Mythic Ages, and are all Fable. 1775J. Bryant Mythol. II. 97 The mythic heroes of Egypt. 1825Coleridge Lit. Rem. (1836) II. 335 While yet poesy, in all its several species of verse, music, statuary, &c. continued mythic. 1840W. H. Mill Observ. i. 7 To show..the incredibility of his mythic theory as applied to the Gospels. 1866Kingsley Herew. xviii. 344 note, Langebek..tries..to rationalize the mythic pedigree of Earl Siward Digre. 1881Ch. Times No. 967. 513 To reject the Gospels themselves as mythic. |