mithict

An obsolete spelling of mythic. Mithra, n. See Mithras. Mithradatic (mith-ra-dat'ik), a. Same as Mithridatic, 1. Mithræum (mith-rē'um), n. [NL., In the Mithræum there were-there are still, because we have saved the place from destruction, and added it to the curiosities of Rome - the remnant of the seven torches which were kept burning before the image of Mithras Tauroktonos. Lanciani , Anc. Rome in the Light of Mod. Discov., p. 192. Mithraic (mith-rā'ik), a . [ Mithras + -ic .] Of or pertaining to the ancient Persian and late Roman god Mithras. The Mithraic doctrines appear to have comprised all the prominent features of the Magian or Chaldean tem, and we need not be surprised, therefore, that they are represented as embracing magical, occult, and thau maturgical science. miter-iron (mi'tér-i"ėrn), n. A fagot for forging, composed of a group of bars of angular section wedged about a cylindrical bar within a hoop. miter-jack (mi'tèr-jak), n. A simple form of miter-box or templet, consisting merely of a bed + -ism .] Same as Mithraism . A. Wilder , in Knight's Anc. Art and Myth. (1876), p. xix. Mithraicism (mith-rā'i-sizm), n. [ The religion of Mithra. played an important part in the thought of the early centuries of the Christian era, yet little is known of Mithraism at the present time. Pop . Sci . Mo. , XXXIII. 283.