mythological, a.
(mɪθəˈlɒdʒɪkəl)
Also 7 muth.
[f. late L. mȳthologic-us, a. Gr. µῡθολογικ-ός, f. µῡθολογία mythology: see ical.]
Of or belonging to mythology; based upon or of the nature of mythology or mythical narrative; having reference to a myth or myths.
| 1614 Raleigh Hist. World ii. xvi. 474 The Mythologicall interpretation of these I purposely omit, as..no lesse perplexed than the labours [of Hercules] themselues. 1696 Whiston Th. Earth 2 Asserting it [sc. Genesis] to be a meer Popular, Parabolick, or Mythological relation. 1794 Sullivan View Nat. V. 182 This mythological dogma of the Scandinavians. 1837 Whewell Hist. Induct. Sci. (1857) II. 181 The mythological nomenclature of planets. 1856 Max Müller Chips (1867) II. 10 A kind of Eocene period, commonly called the Mythological or Mythopœic Age. 1858 Gladstone Homer II. 265 The mythological absorption of the Sun in Apollo. |
b. Applied to writers of myths.
| a 1656 Ussher Ann. (1658) 21 This Rameses..is by Muthological writers surnamed Neptunus. |
c. Treated of or celebrated in mythology.
| 1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. i. i. 9 Sesostris is another mythological conqueror 1876 Besant & Rice Gold. Butterfly I. iii. 66 Cornelius began to regret his allusion to the mythological maid, for his classical memory failed. |