mythic, a.
(ˈmɪθɪk)
[ad. late L. mȳthic-us, a. Gr. µῡθ-ικός, f. µῦθος mythus: see -ic. Cf. F. mythique.]
= mythical.
| 1669 Gale Crt. Gentiles i. ii. i. 2 Mythic, or Fabulous, Theologie, at first broached by the Poets. 1699 Baker Refl. Learning x. 110 The times before these were the Mythic Ages, and are all Fable. 1775 J. Bryant Mythol. II. 97 The mythic heroes of Egypt. 1825 Coleridge Lit. Rem. (1836) II. 335 While yet poesy, in all its several species of verse, music, statuary, &c. continued mythic. 1840 W. H. Mill Observ. i. 7 To show..the incredibility of his mythic theory as applied to the Gospels. 1866 Kingsley Herew. xviii. 344 note, Langebek..tries..to rationalize the mythic pedigree of Earl Siward Digre. 1881 Ch. Times No. 967. 513 To reject the Gospels themselves as mythic. |