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mythologic, a. and n.|mɪθəˈlɒdʒɪk|
[Formed as next: see -ic.]
A. adj. = mythological.
1664Butler Hud. ii. i. 444 Though Love be all the worlds pretence, Mony's the Mythologic fence, The real substance of the shadow. 1669Gale Crt. of Gentiles i. i. ii. 8 Mythologick Traditions of the first chap: of Genesis. 1728S. Shuckford Hist. World iv. 214 Such Schemes and Representations [sc. of the Deities] could not be made, until the Mythologic Times. 1784Cowper Tiroc. 197 Taught at schools much mythologic stuff, But sound religion sparingly enough. 1847–8De Quincey Protestantism Wks. 1858 VIII. 163 The gay mythologic religion of Greece. 1871Tylor Prim. Cult. I. 84 So thoroughly does riddle-making belong to the mythologic stage of thought, that [etc.]. 1878Gladstone Prim. Homer vi. 77 A great mythologic drama.
†B. n. A mythological personage or narrative.
a1631Donne Paradoxes (1652) 52 So is she [sc. Venus] joyned in Commission with all Mythologicks, with Juno [etc.]. 1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. ii. iii. 31 Not only the stories of Moses, but of others also, lie hid in the Mythologics of Bacchus.
Hence † mythoˈlogicly adv. (rare—0.)
1611Cotgr., Mithologiquement, mithologikely; by a morall exposition of fables. |