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mytho-|ˈmaɪθəʊ, ˈmɪθəʊ, mɪˈθɒ|
combining f. Gr. µῦθος myth, as in mythology, etc. A few compounds of occasional occurrence are placed here: ˈmythoclast [Gr. -κλαστης breaker], one who destroys or casts discredit upon myths; hence mythoˈclastic a. mythoˈgenesis, the production of myths. myˈthogony [Gr. -γονία creation], the study of the origin of myths; hence mythoˈgonic a. ˌmythoheˈroic a., concerned with mythical heroes. ˌmytho-hiˈstoric a., involving a mixture of myth and history. ˈmythomane = mythomaniac; also attrib. mythoˈmania, the condition or tendencies of a mythomaniac. mythoˈmaniac, (a) one who is ‘mad on’ myths; (b) one who has an abnormal or pathological tendency to lie or exaggerate; also as adj. myˈthometer, a standard by which myths judged. myˈthonomy (see quots.); mythoˈpastoral a., combining mythic and pastoral elements. mythoˈpœia = mythopœism † ˈmythoplasm, the fabrication of myths. ˌmytho-theˈology, theology based on myth.
1890Sat. Rev. 4 Oct. 392 To give the *mythoclast his due.
1881Spectator 15 Oct. 1309/2 In this *mythoklastic age.
1887Mind XII. 623 The cause of the extraordinary development in man of ‘*mythogenesis’.
1889N. & Q. Ser. vii. VII. Advt. p. iv, The *mythogonic hypothesis presented by Professor Max Müller and other philologists.
Ibid., The author draws a sharp distinction between *mythogony and mythology.
1841Fraser's Mag. XXIV. 129 In the *mytho⁓heroic poems, the great Heraclide family enjoyed all that fame which mythic poetry can give. 1878T. Sinclair Mount vii. 167 æschylus..is almost wholly epical or mytho⁓heroic.
1838T. Keightley Mythol. (ed. 2) 304 Grecian history—of which the..*mytho-historic portion commences with the Dorian migration.
1954Encounter Dec. 77/2 [Socialism is to be] treated as the way to that abolition of ‘injustice’ whose necessary existence in any human society these *mythomanes find intolerable. 1959Ibid. June 79/1 The mythomanes seized the new means of communication. 1962Punch 26 Sept. 464/3 A mythomane tart with a line in imaginary family grandeur. 1975Times 2 May 11/8 Paper Tiger.. is a modest..entertainment, with David Niven as a pathological mythomane who..finds himself obliged to live up to his fantasies.
1909Cent. Dict. Suppl., *Mythomania. 1955Antiquity XXIX. 197 Deception for the mere fun of deceiving—a sort of mythomania. 1958New Statesman 6 Sept. 311/1 As for the formal principle on which the New Critics plumed themselves, it cannot be said that they ever applied it with any consistency or finesse; and lately it has been giving way to mythomania and symbol-hunting. 1973Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Nov. 1476/1 It proves to have no resemblance to the sculpture, and the assertion is seen as a manifestation of mythomania.
1857Fraser's Mag. LVI. 88 note, When it is the fashion to insist that almost every one and everything bygone is a myth..we would humbly remind the *mythomaniacs that [etc.]. 1922W. S. Maugham Writer's Notebk. (1949) 186 She is not only a liar, she is a mythomaniac who will invent malicious stories that have no foundation in fact. 1961Times 15 June 17/3 Mary ends up sadder, if less mythomaniac, than she began. 1973C. McCarry Miernik Dossier (1974) 90, I regarded Miernik as a mythomaniac... I did not believe in the existence of the sister.
1890Sat. Rev. 4 Oct. 392 Even Elia's dissertation on the origin of the crackling is gravely brought under the..*mythometer of this degree of positive critic.
1882Amer. Naturalist Oct. 829 Mythography... Mythology... *Mythonomy. 1890Cent. Dict., Mythonomy, the deductive and predictive stage of mythology. 1939C. S. Lewis Lett. (1966) 163 We now need a new word for ‘the science of the nature of myths’... Would ‘mythonomy’ do?
1838Blackw. Mag. XXXIV. 716 The *mythopastoral class of Sanscrit plays.
1731Bailey vol. II, *Mythoplasm, a fabulous narration of history.
1959H. Bloom Shelley's Mythmaking i. 8, I do not claim that all of Shelley's major and mature poems are *mythopoeic, especially in the precise and narrow sense of mythopoeia that I insist upon here. 1970Listener 30 July 154/2 Science is not immune to mythopoeia.
1927J. S. Huxley Relig. without Revelation vi. 191 They possess a vague and elastic *mytho-theology. 1932R. Knox Broadcast Minds iv. 72 They had ancestors..to whom that mytho-theology was real. |