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单词 mythologist
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mythologistn.

Brit. /mᵻˈθɒlədʒɪst/, U.S. /məˈθɑlədʒəst/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mythology n., -ist suffix.
Etymology: < mythology n. + -ist suffix. Compare ancient Greek μυθολόγος (see mythologer n.), French mythologiste (1609). Compare slightly earlier mythologer n., mythologian n.
1. A writer or creator of myths.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > mythology > [noun] > relating or constructing myths > one who
mythologer1604
mythologist1608
mythologizer1641
mythographer1660
myth-maker1856
mythopoeist1873
mythopoet1876
mythograph1891
1608 B. Jonson Beautie in Characters Masques sig. d 2 As this of Serenity, applying to the Opticks reason of the Rainebowe and the Mythologists making her the daughter of Electra.
1642 A. Ross Mel Heliconium 104 Other Mythologists have other conceits.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. iv. §2 This Orpheus by Mythologists is usually called the son of Calliope.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 49. ⁋3 The Figures which the ancient Mythologists and Poets put upon Love.
1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. III. xxv. 56 This invisible and formless being..was by ancient poets and mythologists pourtrayed by Saturn.
1830 H. Tufnell & G. C. Lewis tr. C. O. Müller Hist. Doric Race p. vi The imagination of the mythologist was ‘a chartered libertine’.
1874 W. Mathews Getting on in World xiii. 178 The mythologists tell us that Minerva threw away the flute when she found that it puffed up her cheeks.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 733/1 Such is the earlier version from which later mythologists and poets evolved the familiar myth of the loves of Alpheus and Arethusa.
1992 New Musical Express 29 Aug. 32/2 That means..sparse, uneasy music pricked by the ghosts of previous drug mythologists Lou Reed, Nick Cave, [etc.].
2. An expert in or student of myths or mythology.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > mythology > [noun] > study of myths > one who
mythologiana1600
mythologer1604
mythologist1631
1631 P. Heylyn Hist. St. George ii. viii. 310 Omnis fabula (as the Mythologists affirme) fundatur in Historia.
1693 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. I. vi. 205 Vossius, or Bochart, or any other Mythologist.
a1704 T. Brown Pocket-bk. Common Places in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) ii. 131 Mythologists..are mighty Unravellers of the Fables of the old Ethnicks.
1753 R. Dodsley Public Virtue 20 Mythologists have thought the universal nature of things to be signify'd by this god [sc. Pan]; and that his pipe, compos'd of seven reeds, was the symbol of the seven planets.
1844 R. W. Emerson Ess. 2nd Ser. i. 20 In the old mythology, mythologists observe, defects are ascribed to divine natures.
1867 F. M. Müller Chips from German Workshop II. xvi. 82 The first duty of the mythologist is..to reduce each mythe to its primitive unsystematic form.
1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch I. xx. 358 Poor Mr Casaubon..in an exposure of other mythologists' ill-considered parallels, easily lost sight of any purpose which had prompted him to these labours.
1951 P. V. Harris (title) The truth about Robin Hood. A refutation of the mythologists' theories, with new evidence of the hero's actual existence.
1989 J. L. Casti Paradigms Lost i. 17 According to the famous mythologist, Joseph Campbell, myths serve several functions.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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