mythn.

Brit.

/mɪθ/, U.S.

/mɪθ/

Forms: 1800s mythe, 1800s– myth.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin mȳthus, mȳthos; Greek μῦθος.

Etymology: < classical Latin mȳthus or mȳthos (see mythus n.) or its etymon ancient Greek μῦθος mythos n. Compare earlier mythos n., mythus n., and mythic adj. Compare also French mythe (1803). N.E.D. (1908) states that the pronunciation /maɪθ/ (there transcribed as (məiþ)), ‘formerly prevalent, is still sometimes heard. The corresponding spelling mythe was affected by Grote and Max Müller (among others)’. This pronunciation is recorded as a rarer variant in editions of D. Jones Eng. Pronouncing Dict. until 1969. Compare also the following:1838 T. Keightley Mythol. Anc. Greece & Italy (ed. 2) 1 Mythology is the science which treats of the mythes..current among a people.1846 T. Keightley Notes Bucolics & Georgics of Virgil p. vii From the Greek μῦθος I have made the word mȳthe, in which however no one has followed me, the form generally adopted being my̆th.

a. A traditional story, typically involving supernatural beings or forces, which embodies and provides an explanation, aetiology, or justification for something such as the early history of a society, a religious belief or ritual, or a natural phenomenon.Myth is strictly distinguished from allegory and legend by some scholars, but in general use it is often used interchangeably with these terms.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > mythology > [noun] > a mythical story or myth

fablea1400

mythologica1631

mythos1753

mythologue1792

mythus1825

myth1830

mythology1873

mythologem1884

1830 Westm. Rev. 12 44 These two stories are very good illustrations of the origin of myths, by means of which, even the most natural sentiment is traced to its cause in the circumstances of fabulous history.

1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. i. 67 It is neither history nor allegory, but simple mythe or legend.

1866 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 312 The celebrated mythe or apologue called ‘The Choice of Hercules’, one of the most impressive exhortations in ancient literature to a life of labour and self-denial.

1899 S. Baring-Gould Vicar of Morwenstow vii. 195 It is chronicled in an old Armenian myth that the wise men of the East were none other than the three sons of Noe.

1905 J. A. Stewart Myths of Plato 1 The Myth is a fanciful tale, sometimes traditional, sometimes newly invented, with which Socrates or some other interlocutor interrupts or concludes the argumentative conversation in which the movement of the [Platonic] Drama mainly consists.

1915 C. P. Gilman Herland in Forerunner Jan. 12/2 I made out quite a few legends and folk-myths of these scattered tribes.

1958 B. Deutsch Poetry Handbk. 93 The lack of an acceptable or widely accredited myth, that imaginative ordering of experience which helps the group or the person giving it assent to enjoy or endure life and to accept death, is the subject of many contemporary poems.

1978 J. D. Crichton in C. Jones et al. Study of Liturgy i. 7 The myth was a sacred narrative, whether true or fictional, which gave an account of, or ‘explained’, the origins of human life or of the community.

1997 P. Melville Ventriloquist's Tale (1998) i. 83 There is a savannah creation myth in which two brothers cut down this tree—Mount Roraima, in fact—and a flood gushes from the trunk.

b. As a mass noun: such stories collectively or as a genre.In later use coloured by sense 2a.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [noun] > an invention, fiction, story

fablec1300

fantasy1362

feigning1388

invention?a1513

story?1531

finctionc1540

figment1577

fingure1593

fiction1599

knavigation1613

flam1632

gun1720

novel1764

fabrication1790

fudge1797

gag1805

myth1840

make-up1844

concoction1885

fictionalization1954

1840 W. H. Mill Observ. Gospel vi. 118 The same non-historical region of philosophical myth.

1885 E. Clodd Myths & Dreams 7 Myth was the product of man's emotion and imagination, acted upon by his surroundings.

1925 Glasgow Herald 29 Aug. 4 In the same tale données from classical myth are also to be encountered.

1941 H. G. Wells You can't be too Careful v. i. 240 As the New Deal unfolded, American myth and reality began to take on an increasing parallelism with Europe.

1991 M. E. Wertsch Military Brats Pref. p. xiii Only if we look at our Fortress experience unvarnished by myth, can we know who we are.

a. A widespread but untrue or erroneous story or belief; a widely held misconception; a misrepresentation of the truth. Also: something existing only in myth; a fictitious or imaginary person or thing.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > rumour > [noun]

speechc1000

wordOE

hearinga1300

opinion1340

talesa1375

famea1387

inklinga1400

slandera1400

noising1422

rumour?a1425

bruit1477

nickinga1500

commoninga1513

roarc1520

murmura1522

hearsay?1533

cry1569

scandal1596

vogue1626

discourse1677

sough1716

circulation1775

gossip1811

myth1849

breeze1879

sound1899

potin1922

dirt1926

rumble1929

skinny1938

labrish1942

lie and story1950

scam1964

he-say-she-say1972

factoid1973

ripple1977

goss1985

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [noun] > something invented

fiction1495

fablea1593

commentation1652

myth1849

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > a false or foolish tale > [noun] > a fable, myth

feigning1388

legend1581

fabulosity1601

myth1849

urban legend1931

urban myth1982

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > mythology > [noun] > that which exists only in myth

myth1849

1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton Caxtons II. x. iii. 167 As for Mrs Primmins's bones, they had been myths these twenty years.

1854 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 23 Oct. (1954) II. 179 Of course many silly myths are already afloat about me, in addition to the truth, which of itself would be thought matter for scandal.

1874 A. H. Sayce Princ. Compar. Philol. iv. 165 The pronominal root is a philological myth.

1888 Times (Weekly ed.) 3 Feb. 9/3 Parliamentary control was a myth.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XV. 593/1 The jus [sc. the jus primae noctis or droit du seigneur], it seems, is a myth, invented no earlier than the 16th or 17th century.

1950 Sc. Jrnl. Theol. 3 37 To this inner fellowship of disciples the ‘mystery’ of the Kingdom of God is disclosed, whereas to outsiders this same Kingdom remains..an imaginative dream, or, as we might say, a myth.

1973 Times 13 Nov. 6/6 There is a myth going around that there are an awful lot of empty houses in Windsor Great Park.

1976 Glasgow Herald 26 Nov. 28/2 The much-vaunted ‘caring society’ is a myth.

1997 Guardian 9 June i. 4/3 The researchers suggest women who claim to be suffering from PMS are instead affected by random depression... PMS, they conclude, is a myth.

b. A person or thing held in awe or generally referred to with near reverential admiration on the basis of popularly repeated stories (whether real or fictitious). Cf. legend n. 7.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > [noun] > person or thing much talked about > that has become proverbial

proverba1382

byword1535

fable1535

myth1853

1853 C. M. Yonge Heir of Redclyffe I. iv. 43 ‘That old-school deference and attention is very chivalrous..; I hope it will not wear off.’ ‘A vain hope,’ said Charles. ‘At present he is like that German myth, Kaspar Hauser, who lived till twenty in a cellar.’

1921 C. S. Lewis Let. 21 Mar. (1966) 58 He [sc. W. B. Yeats] said, ‘The most interesting thing about the Victorian period was their penchant for selecting one typical Great Man in each department—Tennyson, the poet, Roberts, the soldier; and then these types were made into myths.’

1962 R. Oberfirst Rudolph Valentino xvii. 172 In the space of the first two or three weeks that The Sheik was exhibited, Valentino had become a myth.

1979 Tucson (Arizona) Citizen 20 Sept. 5 a/3 Father Flanagan was legendary, his institution an American myth.

1991 Esquire Apr. 155 He wasn't a myth, he wasn't a genius. He was a frail human being.

c. A popular conception of a person or thing which exaggerates or idealizes the truth.

ΚΠ

1928 E. O'Neill Strange Interlude iv. 139 Nina... He never appreciated the real Gordon. No one did except me. Darrell. (Thinking caustically). Gordon myth strong as ever..root of her trouble still.

1961 Listener 2 Nov. 739/2 Disraeli set himself to recreate a national political party out of the wreckage of Peel's following. A new myth had to be evolved.

1993 Guardian 19 Oct. ii. 10/3 This makes him a murderous subject for a biography, so hopeless entangled is the man with his myth.

Compounds

General attributive.

C1.

myth-addict n.

ΚΠ

1945 A. Koestler Yogi & Commissar ii. i. 133 Almost every discussion with myth-addicts, whether public or private, is doomed to failure.

myth addiction n.

ΚΠ

1954 A. Koestler Invisible Writing ii. 31 It does not matter by what name one calls this mental process—double-think, controlled schizophrenia, myth addiction, or semantic perversion.

myth-building n.

ΚΠ

1867 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Apr. 227 The myth-building spirit.

1879 M. B. Benton in Appletons' Jrnl. Apr. 339/2 The whole structure of this Shakespearean myth-building seems to cluster about the central fact..that the world's greatest genius should have been a man of like passions with one of us.

1994 Amer. Lit. 66 583 Many of these mystifications..might be said to participate in the cultural work of myth-building.

myth creator n.

ΚΠ

1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. i. 75 The Athenian mythe-creators.

1989 Financial Times (Nexis) 14 July 2 As Mr Bush, the cautious political realist, rather than the myth creator, recognises, the West's immediate role is to offer support for internally generated changes, but not to impose.

2000 Evening Post (Nottingham) (Nexis) 11 Feb. (Arts section) 2 ‘Tolkein [sic] was the most brilliant myth creator that I have come across,’ says Robbins.

myth-criticism n.

ΚΠ

1954 Shakespeare Q. 5 78 The rhetorical tradition survives today in ‘new criticism’, with its theories of verbal ambiguity and irony, and the allegorical school survives in ‘myth criticism’, which, like its predecessor, attempts to isolate a subject-matter instead of studying a form.

1994 J. Barth Once upon Time 310 By mid-century their work in turn had inspired a veritable industry of ‘myth-criticism’, among whose notable practitioners were the eminent Canadian Northrop Frye.

myth-destroying n. and adj.

ΚΠ

1930 Amer. Hist. Rev. 35 647 In attributing our early policy of recognizing de facto governments to Henry Clay instead of to Washington, a chance for myth-destroying is lost.

1937 Public Opinion Q. 1 37 Neither the myth-making nor the myth-destroying was an inexplicable or unique phenomenon.

1989 Contemp. Sociol. 18 702/1 He offers a critical, myth-destroying overview of the development of the auto.

myth-monger n.

ΚΠ

1873 Catholic World May 209 (title) Myths and myth-mongers.

1961 Listener 28 Sept. 479/3 They find their natural allies in the political myth-mongers and the political gangsters.

1991 Sunday Times 8 Sept. 10/1 The principal victim of the Mozart myth-mongers has been the unfinished D minor Requiem.

myth-mongering n.

ΚΠ

1895 C. G. Leland Legends of Florence 262 I have endeavoured in this comment to avoid useless myth-mongering.

1993 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 22 Aug. 6/3 Teddy [Kennedy] has life, after all, while his brothers are done, and not all the myth mongering and mini-series in the world can compensate them.

myth-pattern n.

ΚΠ

1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 5/2 This urgent appetite to have the cake and eat it, too, is widely prevalent in the myth patterns..of industrial society.

1996 Kirkus Rev. (Nexis) 15 Mar. Urgent, impassioned, with (potentially) wide appeal, but Bly's myth-patterns jar with his newly adopted news-magazine style of statistics and commentary.

myth-play n.

ΚΠ

1957 N. Frye Anat. Crit. 282 The scriptural play is a form of a spectacular dramatic genre which we may provisionally call a ‘myth-play’.

myth-removal n.

ΚΠ

1951 F. V. Filson tr. O. Cullmann Christ & Time 13 A framework, of which we must strip the account in order to get at the kernel (‘de-mythologizing’ or ‘myth-removal’).

myth-stage n.

ΚΠ

1950 Sc. Jrnl. Theol. 3 39 We have seen that..Christians are to..get beyond the myth-stage of spiritual understanding.

1996 San Antonio (Texas) Express-News (Nexis) 23 June 9 g Jordan recently told reporters he isn't ‘comfortable with the myth stage of my life’.

myth-system n.

ΚΠ

1875 C. F. Keary in Contemp. Rev. 26 286 These ‘cloud-maidens’..belong not to the northern mythology alone, but to every Aryan myth-system.

1953 A. K. C. Ottaway Educ. & Society 42 Every society is held together by a myth-system.

1997 Commentary (Nexis) Sept. 52 Religion, for Sagan..was a myth-system created to deal with human uncertainty.

myth-talk n.

ΚΠ

1970 Jrnl. Ecumenical Stud. 7 822/1 In this essay, Gilkey is the theologian who establishes guidelines for myth-talk.

myth-transcriber n.

ΚΠ

1924 D. H. Lawrence in N.Y. Times Mag. 26 Oct. 3/2 White people always, or nearly always write sentimentally about the Indians—all of them, anthropologists, and myth-transcribers and all.

C2.

myth-bound adj.

ΚΠ

1964 Economist 8 Aug. 551/2 Trying to educate the myth-bound Americans.

1991 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 21 Nov. 17/2 The learned told themselves this myth to show how myth-bound were their unenlightened ancestors.

myth-creating adj.

ΚΠ

1869 tr. in Littell's Living Age 13 Mar. 680/2 The planting of corn is represented under a mythological form, as full of life as any which the myth-creating power of antiquity can exhibit.

1994 Information Week (Nexis) 28 Nov. 6 Each year, Las Vegas casino owners borrow from the myth-creating skills of Hollywood to build even more fantastic and unbelievable structures.

myth-producing adj.

ΚΠ

1864 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Apr. 223 Let us hear Mr. Grote upon the characteristics of a myth-producing age.

1954 A. Koestler Invisible Writing xxxvi. 390 An indication of the deep, myth-producing forces that were and still are at work.

1990 Manch. Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 26 Aug. 16 The myth-producing process and its marketing have functioned remarkably well in the case of ‘Modi’, as his fans call him.

myth-provoking adj.

ΚΠ

1966 Punch 26 Jan. 139/1 Author explores the myth-provoking north-west coast of Spain.

1990 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 2 Dec. 67 ‘There are a lot of things that have become sort of myths with the Cocteau Twins,’ said Simon Raymonde, one third of the myth-provoking band.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	myth
释义	mythn. Brit. /mɪθ/, U.S. /mɪθ/ Forms: 1800s mythe, 1800s– myth. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin mȳthus, mȳthos; Greek μῦθος. Etymology: < classical Latin mȳthus or mȳthos (see mythus n.) or its etymon ancient Greek μῦθος mythos n. Compare earlier mythos n., mythus n., and mythic adj. Compare also French mythe (1803). N.E.D. (1908) states that the pronunciation /maɪθ/ (there transcribed as (məiþ)), ‘formerly prevalent, is still sometimes heard. The corresponding spelling mythe was affected by Grote and Max Müller (among others)’. This pronunciation is recorded as a rarer variant in editions of D. Jones Eng. Pronouncing Dict. until 1969. Compare also the following:1838 T. Keightley Mythol. Anc. Greece & Italy (ed. 2) 1 Mythology is the science which treats of the mythes..current among a people.1846 T. Keightley Notes Bucolics & Georgics of Virgil p. vii From the Greek μῦθος I have made the word mȳthe, in which however no one has followed me, the form generally adopted being my̆th. 1. a. A traditional story, typically involving supernatural beings or forces, which embodies and provides an explanation, aetiology, or justification for something such as the early history of a society, a religious belief or ritual, or a natural phenomenon.Myth is strictly distinguished from allegory and legend by some scholars, but in general use it is often used interchangeably with these terms. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > mythology > [noun] > a mythical story or myth fablea1400 mythologica1631 mythos1753 mythologue1792 mythus1825 myth1830 mythology1873 mythologem1884 1830 Westm. Rev. 12 44 These two stories are very good illustrations of the origin of myths, by means of which, even the most natural sentiment is traced to its cause in the circumstances of fabulous history. 1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. i. 67 It is neither history nor allegory, but simple mythe or legend. 1866 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 312 The celebrated mythe or apologue called ‘The Choice of Hercules’, one of the most impressive exhortations in ancient literature to a life of labour and self-denial. 1899 S. Baring-Gould Vicar of Morwenstow vii. 195 It is chronicled in an old Armenian myth that the wise men of the East were none other than the three sons of Noe. 1905 J. A. Stewart Myths of Plato 1 The Myth is a fanciful tale, sometimes traditional, sometimes newly invented, with which Socrates or some other interlocutor interrupts or concludes the argumentative conversation in which the movement of the [Platonic] Drama mainly consists. 1915 C. P. Gilman Herland in Forerunner Jan. 12/2 I made out quite a few legends and folk-myths of these scattered tribes. 1958 B. Deutsch Poetry Handbk. 93 The lack of an acceptable or widely accredited myth, that imaginative ordering of experience which helps the group or the person giving it assent to enjoy or endure life and to accept death, is the subject of many contemporary poems. 1978 J. D. Crichton in C. Jones et al. Study of Liturgy i. 7 The myth was a sacred narrative, whether true or fictional, which gave an account of, or ‘explained’, the origins of human life or of the community. 1997 P. Melville Ventriloquist's Tale (1998) i. 83 There is a savannah creation myth in which two brothers cut down this tree—Mount Roraima, in fact—and a flood gushes from the trunk. b. As a mass noun: such stories collectively or as a genre.In later use coloured by sense 2a. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [noun] > an invention, fiction, story fablec1300 fantasy1362 feigning1388 invention?a1513 story?1531 finctionc1540 figment1577 fingure1593 fiction1599 knavigation1613 flam1632 gun1720 novel1764 fabrication1790 fudge1797 gag1805 myth1840 make-up1844 concoction1885 fictionalization1954 1840 W. H. Mill Observ. Gospel vi. 118 The same non-historical region of philosophical myth. 1885 E. Clodd Myths & Dreams 7 Myth was the product of man's emotion and imagination, acted upon by his surroundings. 1925 Glasgow Herald 29 Aug. 4 In the same tale données from classical myth are also to be encountered. 1941 H. G. Wells You can't be too Careful v. i. 240 As the New Deal unfolded, American myth and reality began to take on an increasing parallelism with Europe. 1991 M. E. Wertsch Military Brats Pref. p. xiii Only if we look at our Fortress experience unvarnished by myth, can we know who we are. 2. a. A widespread but untrue or erroneous story or belief; a widely held misconception; a misrepresentation of the truth. Also: something existing only in myth; a fictitious or imaginary person or thing. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > rumour > [noun] speechc1000 wordOE hearinga1300 opinion1340 talesa1375 famea1387 inklinga1400 slandera1400 noising1422 rumour?a1425 bruit1477 nickinga1500 commoninga1513 roarc1520 murmura1522 hearsay?1533 cry1569 scandal1596 vogue1626 discourse1677 sough1716 circulation1775 gossip1811 myth1849 breeze1879 sound1899 potin1922 dirt1926 rumble1929 skinny1938 labrish1942 lie and story1950 scam1964 he-say-she-say1972 factoid1973 ripple1977 goss1985 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [noun] > something invented fiction1495 fablea1593 commentation1652 myth1849 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > a false or foolish tale > [noun] > a fable, myth feigning1388 legend1581 fabulosity1601 myth1849 urban legend1931 urban myth1982 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > mythology > [noun] > that which exists only in myth myth1849 1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton Caxtons II. x. iii. 167 As for Mrs Primmins's bones, they had been myths these twenty years. 1854 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 23 Oct. (1954) II. 179 Of course many silly myths are already afloat about me, in addition to the truth, which of itself would be thought matter for scandal. 1874 A. H. Sayce Princ. Compar. Philol. iv. 165 The pronominal root is a philological myth. 1888 Times (Weekly ed.) 3 Feb. 9/3 Parliamentary control was a myth. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XV. 593/1 The jus [sc. the jus primae noctis or droit du seigneur], it seems, is a myth, invented no earlier than the 16th or 17th century. 1950 Sc. Jrnl. Theol. 3 37 To this inner fellowship of disciples the ‘mystery’ of the Kingdom of God is disclosed, whereas to outsiders this same Kingdom remains..an imaginative dream, or, as we might say, a myth. 1973 Times 13 Nov. 6/6 There is a myth going around that there are an awful lot of empty houses in Windsor Great Park. 1976 Glasgow Herald 26 Nov. 28/2 The much-vaunted ‘caring society’ is a myth. 1997 Guardian 9 June i. 4/3 The researchers suggest women who claim to be suffering from PMS are instead affected by random depression... PMS, they conclude, is a myth. b. A person or thing held in awe or generally referred to with near reverential admiration on the basis of popularly repeated stories (whether real or fictitious). Cf. legend n. 7. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > [noun] > person or thing much talked about > that has become proverbial proverba1382 byword1535 fable1535 myth1853 1853 C. M. Yonge Heir of Redclyffe I. iv. 43 ‘That old-school deference and attention is very chivalrous..; I hope it will not wear off.’ ‘A vain hope,’ said Charles. ‘At present he is like that German myth, Kaspar Hauser, who lived till twenty in a cellar.’ 1921 C. S. Lewis Let. 21 Mar. (1966) 58 He [sc. W. B. Yeats] said, ‘The most interesting thing about the Victorian period was their penchant for selecting one typical Great Man in each department—Tennyson, the poet, Roberts, the soldier; and then these types were made into myths.’ 1962 R. Oberfirst Rudolph Valentino xvii. 172 In the space of the first two or three weeks that The Sheik was exhibited, Valentino had become a myth. 1979 Tucson (Arizona) Citizen 20 Sept. 5 a/3 Father Flanagan was legendary, his institution an American myth. 1991 Esquire Apr. 155 He wasn't a myth, he wasn't a genius. He was a frail human being. c. A popular conception of a person or thing which exaggerates or idealizes the truth. ΚΠ 1928 E. O'Neill Strange Interlude iv. 139 Nina... He never appreciated the real Gordon. No one did except me. Darrell. (Thinking caustically). Gordon myth strong as ever..root of her trouble still. 1961 Listener 2 Nov. 739/2 Disraeli set himself to recreate a national political party out of the wreckage of Peel's following. A new myth had to be evolved. 1993 Guardian 19 Oct. ii. 10/3 This makes him a murderous subject for a biography, so hopeless entangled is the man with his myth. Compounds General attributive. C1. myth-addict n. ΚΠ 1945 A. Koestler Yogi & Commissar ii. i. 133 Almost every discussion with myth-addicts, whether public or private, is doomed to failure. myth addiction n. ΚΠ 1954 A. Koestler Invisible Writing ii. 31 It does not matter by what name one calls this mental process—double-think, controlled schizophrenia, myth addiction, or semantic perversion. myth-building n. ΚΠ 1867 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Apr. 227 The myth-building spirit. 1879 M. B. Benton in Appletons' Jrnl. Apr. 339/2 The whole structure of this Shakespearean myth-building seems to cluster about the central fact..that the world's greatest genius should have been a man of like passions with one of us. 1994 Amer. Lit. 66 583 Many of these mystifications..might be said to participate in the cultural work of myth-building. myth creator n. ΚΠ 1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. i. 75 The Athenian mythe-creators. 1989 Financial Times (Nexis) 14 July 2 As Mr Bush, the cautious political realist, rather than the myth creator, recognises, the West's immediate role is to offer support for internally generated changes, but not to impose. 2000 Evening Post (Nottingham) (Nexis) 11 Feb. (Arts section) 2 ‘Tolkein [sic] was the most brilliant myth creator that I have come across,’ says Robbins. myth-criticism n. ΚΠ 1954 Shakespeare Q. 5 78 The rhetorical tradition survives today in ‘new criticism’, with its theories of verbal ambiguity and irony, and the allegorical school survives in ‘myth criticism’, which, like its predecessor, attempts to isolate a subject-matter instead of studying a form. 1994 J. Barth Once upon Time 310 By mid-century their work in turn had inspired a veritable industry of ‘myth-criticism’, among whose notable practitioners were the eminent Canadian Northrop Frye. myth-destroying n. and adj. ΚΠ 1930 Amer. Hist. Rev. 35 647 In attributing our early policy of recognizing de facto governments to Henry Clay instead of to Washington, a chance for myth-destroying is lost. 1937 Public Opinion Q. 1 37 Neither the myth-making nor the myth-destroying was an inexplicable or unique phenomenon. 1989 Contemp. Sociol. 18 702/1 He offers a critical, myth-destroying overview of the development of the auto. myth-monger n. ΚΠ 1873 Catholic World May 209 (title) Myths and myth-mongers. 1961 Listener 28 Sept. 479/3 They find their natural allies in the political myth-mongers and the political gangsters. 1991 Sunday Times 8 Sept. 10/1 The principal victim of the Mozart myth-mongers has been the unfinished D minor Requiem. myth-mongering n. ΚΠ 1895 C. G. Leland Legends of Florence 262 I have endeavoured in this comment to avoid useless myth-mongering. 1993 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 22 Aug. 6/3 Teddy [Kennedy] has life, after all, while his brothers are done, and not all the myth mongering and mini-series in the world can compensate them. myth-pattern n. ΚΠ 1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 5/2 This urgent appetite to have the cake and eat it, too, is widely prevalent in the myth patterns..of industrial society. 1996 Kirkus Rev. (Nexis) 15 Mar. Urgent, impassioned, with (potentially) wide appeal, but Bly's myth-patterns jar with his newly adopted news-magazine style of statistics and commentary. myth-play n. ΚΠ 1957 N. Frye Anat. Crit. 282 The scriptural play is a form of a spectacular dramatic genre which we may provisionally call a ‘myth-play’. myth-removal n. ΚΠ 1951 F. V. Filson tr. O. Cullmann Christ & Time 13 A framework, of which we must strip the account in order to get at the kernel (‘de-mythologizing’ or ‘myth-removal’). myth-stage n. ΚΠ 1950 Sc. Jrnl. Theol. 3 39 We have seen that..Christians are to..get beyond the myth-stage of spiritual understanding. 1996 San Antonio (Texas) Express-News (Nexis) 23 June 9 g Jordan recently told reporters he isn't ‘comfortable with the myth stage of my life’. myth-system n. ΚΠ 1875 C. F. Keary in Contemp. Rev. 26 286 These ‘cloud-maidens’..belong not to the northern mythology alone, but to every Aryan myth-system. 1953 A. K. C. Ottaway Educ. & Society 42 Every society is held together by a myth-system. 1997 Commentary (Nexis) Sept. 52 Religion, for Sagan..was a myth-system created to deal with human uncertainty. myth-talk n. ΚΠ 1970 Jrnl. Ecumenical Stud. 7 822/1 In this essay, Gilkey is the theologian who establishes guidelines for myth-talk. myth-transcriber n. ΚΠ 1924 D. H. Lawrence in N.Y. Times Mag. 26 Oct. 3/2 White people always, or nearly always write sentimentally about the Indians—all of them, anthropologists, and myth-transcribers and all. C2. myth-bound adj. ΚΠ 1964 Economist 8 Aug. 551/2 Trying to educate the myth-bound Americans. 1991 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 21 Nov. 17/2 The learned told themselves this myth to show how myth-bound were their unenlightened ancestors. myth-creating adj. ΚΠ 1869 tr. in Littell's Living Age 13 Mar. 680/2 The planting of corn is represented under a mythological form, as full of life as any which the myth-creating power of antiquity can exhibit. 1994 Information Week (Nexis) 28 Nov. 6 Each year, Las Vegas casino owners borrow from the myth-creating skills of Hollywood to build even more fantastic and unbelievable structures. myth-producing adj. ΚΠ 1864 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Apr. 223 Let us hear Mr. Grote upon the characteristics of a myth-producing age. 1954 A. Koestler Invisible Writing xxxvi. 390 An indication of the deep, myth-producing forces that were and still are at work. 1990 Manch. Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 26 Aug. 16 The myth-producing process and its marketing have functioned remarkably well in the case of ‘Modi’, as his fans call him. myth-provoking adj. ΚΠ 1966 Punch 26 Jan. 139/1 Author explores the myth-provoking north-west coast of Spain. 1990 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 2 Dec. 67 ‘There are a lot of things that have become sort of myths with the Cocteau Twins,’ said Simon Raymonde, one third of the myth-provoking band. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † mythadj. Forms: Middle English miþi, Middle English myþe; Scottish pre-1700 myth. Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: meeth adj. Etymology: Probably a variant of meeth adj. In form miþi, the -i- is perhaps by analogy with mithe v.Quot. a1525 may show adverbial use. Obsolete. rare. Gentle, modest. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > kindness > gentleness or mildness > [adjective] stillc825 tamec888 nesheOE mildeOE softOE lithea1000 daftc1000 methefulOE sefteOE meekc1175 benign1377 pleasablea1382 mytha1400 tendera1400 unfelona1400 mansuetea1425 meeta1425 gentlec1450 moy1487 placablea1522 facile1539 effeminate1594 silver1596 mildya1603 unmalicious1605 uncruel1611 maliceless1614 tender-hefteda1616 unpersecutive1664 baby-milda1845 rose water1855 turtlish1855 unvindictive1857 soft-boiled1859 tenderful1901 soft-lining1967 a1400 (?a1325) Medit. on Supper of our Lord (Harl.) (1875) 156 (MED) So meke and so myþe [v.r. miþi] a mayster to tray. a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 693 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 116 All war merschalit to meit meikly & myth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † mythv.¹ Forms: Middle English miþe; Scottish pre-1700 mith, pre-1700 mycht (transmission error), pre-1700 myith, pre-1700 myth. Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymology: < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic miða to show, mark: see meith v.). Chiefly Scottish. Obsolete. 1. transitive. To show, reveal, demonstrate. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > [verb (transitive)] uppec897 atewOE sutelec1000 openOE awnc1175 kithec1175 forthteec1200 tawnec1220 let witc1275 forthshowa1300 to pilt out?a1300 showa1300 barea1325 mythc1330 unfoldc1374 to open outc1390 assign1398 mustera1400 reyve?a1400 vouchc1400 manifest?a1425 outshowc1425 ostendc1429 explayc1443 objecta1500 reveala1500 patefy?1509 decipher1529 relieve1533 to set outa1540 utter1542 report1548 unbuckle1548 to set forth1551 demonstrate1553 to hold forth1560 testify1560 explicate1565 forthsetc1565 to give show of1567 denudec1572 exhibit1573 apparent1577 display?1578 carry1580 cipher1583 laya1586 foreshow1590 uncloud?1594 vision1594 explain1597 proclaim1597 unroll1598 discloud1600 remonstrate1601 resent1602 to bring out1608 palesate1613 pronounce1615 to speak out1623 elicit1641 confess1646 bear1657 breathe1667 outplay1702 to throw out1741 evolve1744 announce1781 develop1806 exfoliate1808 evince1829 exposit1882 pack1925 c1330 (?a1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) p. 396 (MED) Þer nis no tong may telle in tale Þe ioie þat was at þat bridale Wiþ menske & mirþe to miþe. 1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. cii^* Yoght he wes myghtles his mercy can he thair myth. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) ix. vii. 14 The brycht helm in twynkland sterny nycht Mythis [L. prodidit] Eurilly with bemys schynand lycht. 1546 in Let. 30 Jan. in Lett. & Papers Henry VIII (1834) III. 549 I sall schew part of diligence to mith his grace sum service. ?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) i. l. 731 in Shorter Poems (1967) 50 The feuerus hew in till my face dyd myith All my male eys. 2. transitive. To observe, notice. rare. ΚΠ 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 664 Scho durst nocht weill in presens till him kyth. Full sor scho dred or Sotheron wald him myth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † mythv.² Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: meith v. Etymology: Variant of meith v. Scottish. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To measure, to reckon. ΚΠ a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) viii. Prol. 40 The myllar mythis the multur wyth a met scant. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1830adj.a1400v.¹c1330v.²a1522
随便看	to pull focus to pull foot to pull for prime to pull free to pull g's to pull in to pull in one's belt to pull in pieces to pull in the same boat to pull it to pull it out of the hat to pull leather to pull lift oneself by one's bootstraps to pull lift oneself by one's own bootstraps to pull lift oneself up by one's bootstraps to pull lift oneself up by one's own bootstraps to pull no punches to pull off to pull on to pull on a cup of wine to pull one out of the hat to pull one's card to pull one's daylights out to pull one's etc to pull one's finger out

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