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

Making or producing myths or mythical tales.

A disease producing a peculiar cretinoid appearance of the face, slow speech, and dullness of intellect, and due to failure of the functions of the thyroid gland. -- Myx`o*dem"a*tous (#), a., Myx`o*dem"ic (#), a.

A tribe of Indians inhabiting New Mexico and Arizona, allied to the Apaches. They are now largely engaged in agriculture.

The central canal and ventricles of the spinal cord and brain; the myelencephalic cavity.

Same as Nowel.

An instrument for determining and registering the duration of more or less complex operations of the mind. Dunglison.

Of or pertaining to the understanding. [Obs.] Cudworth.

The science of the understanding; intellectual science.

One of the followers of Noetus, who lived in the third century. He denied the distinct personality of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

Of or pertaining to the intellect; intellectual. I would employ the word noetic to express all those cognitions which originate in the mind itself. Sir W. Hamilton.

Of or pertaining to noölogy.

One versed in noölogy.

The science of intellectual phenomena.

Producing diseases. [R.] Arbuthnot.

e clarinet in form, but more slender, and sounded by means of a double reed; a hautboy. Oboe d'amore Etym: [It., lit., oboe of love], and Oboe di caccia Etym: [It., lit., oboe of the chase], are names of obsolete modifications of the oboe, often found in the scores of Bach and Handel.

See Octahedral. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The formation of words in imitation of sounds; a figure of speech in which the sound of a word is imitative of the sound of the thing which the word represents; as, the buzz of bees; the hiss of a goose; the crackle of fire.

Onomatopoetic. Whitney.

Of or pertaining to onomatopoeia; characterized by onomatopoeia; imitative; as, an onomatopoetic writer or word. Earle.