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mythopœic, a.|mɪθəʊˈpiːɪk|
[f. Gr. µῡθοποι-ός (f. µῦθο-ς mythus + ποιεῖν to make) + -ic.]
Myth-making; productive of myths; pertaining to the creation of myths.
1846Grote Greece i. i. I. 84 The commanding functions of the Supreme God..was a potent stimulus to the mythopœic activity. Ibid. xvi. 472 The mythopœic fertility of the Greeks. 1874Sayce Compar. Philol. ix. 376 The mythopœic age is the period of primitive unconscious childhood and barbarism. 1898A. Lang Making of Relig. App. 367 The romantic and ‘marvellous’ circumstances are mythopœic accretions due to Dr. Janet's own memory or fancy.
So mythoˈpœism, the making of myths; mythoˈpœist, a myth-maker.
1873Symonds Grk. Poets i. 2 Decayed, disintegrated, dilapidated phrases, the meaning of which had been lost to the first mythopoeists. 1899Eng. Hist. Rev. Apr. 226 The spirit of mythopœism is always active. |