| 释义 |
mythologist|mɪˈθɒlədʒɪst|
[f. L. mȳthologus, Gr. µῡθολόγ-ος (f. µῦθο-ς mythus + -λόγος: see -logue) + -ist.]
1. A writer of myths.
1642A. Rosse Mel Heliconium 104 Other Mythologists have other conceits. 1645Bp. Hall Three Tract., Peace-maker §26 It is no marvell that (as our Mythologists tell us of old) Discord took it ill that she was not called to the banquet of the Celestiall powers. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacræ i. iv. §2 This Orpheus by Mythologists is usually called the son of Calliope. 1709Steele Tatler No. 49 ⁋3 The Figures which the ancient Mythologists and Poets put upon Love. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. III. xxv. 55 This invisible and formless being..was by ancient poets and mythologists pourtrayed by Saturn. 18..Lamb Spec. from Fuller 538 note, That Fabulous Natural History, where poets and mythologists found the Phœnix and the Unicorn. 1830Tufnell & Lewis tr. C. O. Müller's Doric Race p. vi, The imagination of the mythologist was ‘a chartered libertine’.
2. One who is versed in myths or mythology.
comparative mythologist: an expert in comparative mythology.
1631Heylin St. George ii. viii. 310 Omnis fabula (as the Mythologists affirme) fundatur in Historia. 1693J. Edwards Author. O. & N. Test. I. 206 Vossius, or Bochart, or any other Mythologist. a1704T. Brown Comm.-pl. Bk. Wks. 1709 III. ii. 129 Mythologists..are mighty Unravellers of the Fables of the old Ethnicks. 1844Emerson Ess. Ser. ii. i. 12 In the old mythology, mythologists observe, defects are ascribed to divine natures. 1856Max Müller Chips (1880) II. xvi. 85 The first duty of the mythologist is..to reduce each mythe to its primitive unsystematic form. 1865Tylor Early Hist. Man. i. 3 The new school of Comparative Mythologists in Germany and England. |