euhemeristic (uhemeristik)

[Also euemeristic; A Euhemeristic réchauffé of Phoenician theology and mythology, Encyc , Brit ., XVII, 764. euhemeristic ally euhemeristic ally (u-he-me-ris'ti-kal-i), adv. After the manner of Euhemerus; rationalistically: as, to explain a myth euhemeristic ally. Also euemeristically. euhemerize (u-hēme-riz), v.; pret. and pp. euhemerized, ppr. euhemerizing. [ He [the ethnographer] can watch how the mythology of cla ic Europe, once so true to nature and so quick with tered with allegory or euhemerised into dull sham history. E. B. Tylor , Prim. Culture, I. 249. By the beginning of the twelfth century, the Irish had long been Christians, their deities had been either euhemerized into mortals or degraded into demons and fairy chiefs. Amer. Jour. Philol ., VII. 196. II. in trans. To believe in or practise euhemerism; treat or explain myths euhemerist i cally. IMG:content-0776.jpg:[ocr errors] IMG:content-0777.png:[blocks in formation] Eulerian method, in hydrodynamics , the ordinary method, by the use of the Eulerian equations. Euler's numbers, Euler's solution. See пит ber , solution .