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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.

A myth accounting for the discovery of arts and sciences or the advent of a higher civilization, as in the Prometheus myth.

One whose voice appears to proceed from the stomach; a ventriloquist. [Obs.]

A myth which essentially consists of allegory based upon ideas as to the sun's course, motion, influence, or the like.

cles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx.

A shield or protective armor; -- applied in mythology to the shield of Jupiter which he gave to Minerva. Also fig.: A shield; a protection.