mythet

An obsolete spelling of myth. myth-history (mith'his to-ri), n. History interspersed with fable; mythical history. mythi, n. Plural of mythus. mythic (mith'ik), a. [= F. mythique = Sp. mítico Pg. mythico = It. mitico (D. G. mythisch = Dan. mythisk = Sw. mytisk ), A comparison of the histories of the most different nations shows the mythical period to have been common to all; and we may trace in many quarters substantially the same miracles, though varied by national characteristics, and with a certain local cast and colouring. Lecky, Europ. Morals, I. 374. 2. Untrue; invented; false. The account of pheasants being captured by poachers The Academy, June 15, 1889, p. 411. lighting sulphur under their roosting-trees appears very mythical. Mytilacea Mythical theory, in theol., the theory, developed by the German theologian D. F. Strau , that the miracles and other supernatural events of the Bible are myths: opposed to the naturalistic theory, that they may be explained as natural phenomena, and to the supernatural theory, that they were the results of and witne es to a supernatural power working on and through nature. mythically (mith'i-kal-i), ade. In a mythical manner; by means of mythical fables or allegories. Ruskin. mythicist (mith'i-sist), n. [ aginary or have for their basis a myth. The mythicist says that the thoughts of the Jewish mind conjured up the divine interference, and imagined the facts of the history. Princeton Rev., July, 1879, p. 162. mythicizer (mith'i-si-zer), n. [ affords apparent advantage to the mythicizer beyond the The history of the birth of our Lord and His forerunner other parts of the New Testament, where the events are closer to the narrators. Contemporary Rev., XLIX. 184.