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mythe
(gcide) | Myth \Myth\ (m[i^]th), n. [Written also mythe.] [Gr. my^qos
myth, fable, tale, talk, speech: cf. F. mythe.]
1. A story of great but unknown age which originally embodied
a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience,
and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul
are personified; an ancient legend of a god, a hero, the
origin of a race, etc.; a wonder story of prehistoric
origin; a popular fable which is, or has been, received as
historical.
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2. A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose
actual existence is not verifiable.
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As for Mrs. Primmins's bones, they had been myths
these twenty years. --Ld. Lytton.
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Myth history, history made of, or mixed with, myths.
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Mythe
(gcide) | Mythe \Mythe\, n.
See Myth. --Grote.
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Mythe
(gcide) | Myth \Myth\ (m[i^]th), n. [Written also mythe.] [Gr. my^qos
myth, fable, tale, talk, speech: cf. F. mythe.]
1. A story of great but unknown age which originally embodied
a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience,
and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul
are personified; an ancient legend of a god, a hero, the
origin of a race, etc.; a wonder story of prehistoric
origin; a popular fable which is, or has been, received as
historical.
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2. A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose
actual existence is not verifiable.
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As for Mrs. Primmins's bones, they had been myths
these twenty years. --Ld. Lytton.
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Myth history, history made of, or mixed with, myths.
[1913 Webster]Mythe \Mythe\, n.
See Myth. --Grote.
[1913 Webster] Mythic |
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