mytho-historicadj.
/ˌmɪθə(ʊ)hɪˈstɒrɪk/, U.S. /ˈˌmɪθoʊ(h)ɪˈstɔrɪk/ Involving or invoking a mixture of myth and history; relating to or concerned with both myth and history.
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archaeological1714
world-historical1822
mytho-historic1831
world-historic1853
proto-historic1858
museographic1860
Assyriological1881
historionomical1881
psychohistorical1895
theoretico-historical1900
proto-historical1909
museographical1935
comparative-historical1937
Warburgian1956
Viconian1957
mytho-historical1977
1831 T. Keightley Mythol. Anc. Greece & Italy 274 Grecian history—of which the..mytho-historic portion commences with the Dorian migration.
1968 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 29 37 Interwoven with these ideas was the schematization of mytho-historic ages.
1987 Man 22 353 The mytho-historic Kinglist..states that when kingship was lowered from heaven after the flood, it was centred in Kish.
1999 Newsday (N.Y.) (Nexis) 23 Feb. a39 In denying Kosovo's independence, Holbrooke often repeated the Serbs mytho-historic claim to the region they said had been theirs since medieval times.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1831