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or whose actual existence is not verifiable. As for Mrs. Primmins's bones, they had been myths these twenty years. Ld. Lytton. Myth history, history made of, or mixed with, myths.

See Myth. Grote.

Of or relating to myths; described in a myth; of the nature of a myth; fabulous; imaginary; fanciful. -- Myth"ic*al*ly, adv. The mythic turf where danced the nymphs. Mrs. Browning. Hengist and Horsa, Vortigern and Rowena, Arthur and Mordred, are mythical persons, whose very existence may be questioned. Macaulay.…

A composer of fables.

A mythologist.

A mythologist.

Of or pertaining to mythology or to myths; mythical; fabulous. -- Myth`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

One versed in, or who writes on, mythology or myths.

To relate, classify, and explain, or attempt to explain, myths; to write upon myths.

One who, or that which, mythologizes. Imagination has always been, and still is, in a narrower sense, the great mythologizer. Lowell.

A fabulous narrative; a myth. [R.] May we not ... consider his history of the fall as an excellent mythologue, to account for the origin of human evil Geddes.

The science which treats of myths; a treatise on myths.

A narration of mere fable.

Making or producing myths; giving rise to mythical narratives. The mythopoeic fertility of the Greeks. Grote.

Making or producing myths or mythical tales.

Like, or pertaining to, the genus Mytilus, or family Mytilidæ.

A poisonous base (leucomaine) found in the common mussel. It either causes paralysis of the muscles, or gives rise to convulsions, including death by an accumulation of carbonic acid in the blood.

A genus of marine bivalve shells, including the common mussel. See Illust. under Byssus.

nsisting of the class Myxomycetes. By some botanists it is not separated from the Thallophyta.

To refuse; to deny. [Obs.] "He shall not nayt ne deny his sin." Chaucer.