legendaryn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈlɛdʒ(ə)nd(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˈlɛdʒənˌdɛri/

Forms: 1500s–1600s legendarie, 1500s– legendary.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: Latin legendarium ; legendary adj.; Latin legendarius.

Etymology: As noun partly < post-classical Latin legendarium (also legendarius) collection of saints' lives (from 12th cent. in British and continental sources; < legenda (see legend n.) + classical Latin -ārium -ary suffix¹), and partly (in sense A. 3) < legendary adj. (compare the French parallel cited below). As adjective < post-classical Latin legendarius, adjective (1563) < legenda + classical Latin -ārius -ary suffix¹. Compare Middle French legendaire (French légendaire ) collection of saints' lives (1402), compiler of a legendary (1582); the use as adjective is not paralleled in French until much later than in English (1836 in sense B. 2a, 1848 in sense B. 2b).

A. n.

a. A collection of saints' lives. Also more generally: a collection of stories or legends. Cf. legend n. 3a, 3b.In quot. a1513 with the, with reference to the Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine (see legend n. 3b).

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society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > [noun] > literature about > story or account of > collection of

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > legend or folk tale > [noun] > collection of

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a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xxiii. sig. i.i^v Amonge her systers all She caused to be redde..The swete legendary, for a memoryall.

1581 T. Newton tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. St. Peter & St. Jude f. 22 By this meanes doe thei drawe vs from the Woorde of God, to their liyng Legendaries, and Deuelishe obedience.

1616 R. Sheldon Suruey Miracles Church of Rome 330 You haue in your Legendaries, in your vitis Patrum, in your Rosarie beatae Virginis, many most idle tales.

1675 G. Meriton Anglorum Gesta v. 65 This is him [sc. Arthur] of whom so many Incredible things are reported in the Monkish Legendaries, that they make his true Atchievements questionable.

1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ 280 That Legendary Triumvirate found ways..to fob into Tinmouth's Gold-finding Legendary their own production of Winefred's Life.

1859 Ulster Jrnl. Archæol. 7 310 The Vita Mariani, even, has not been discovered in Regensburg, but by a happy chance was found in Austrian legendaries.

1874 Chambers's Encycl. (rev. ed.) VI. 584/2 The cycle of Midrashsagas..which are reproduced variously in Moslem Legendaries.

1907 A. Stein Anc. Khotan I. xiii. 449 The Turkī legendary of Maḥmūd Karam Kābulī, which purports to relate events of the twelfth century a.d.

1950 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. 24 Feb. (1995) 136 You may, perhaps, remember about that work, a long legendary of imaginary times in a ‘high style’, and full of Elves (of a sort).

2002 A. Thacker in A. Thacker & R. Sharpe Local Saints & Local Churches i. 34 Native saints..enjoyed sufficient prestige to engender a group of early Latin Lives together in a legendary.

†b. A story, an account, a history; = legend n. 2. Obsolete.

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the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > a narrative or account

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1577 tr. F. De L'Isle (title) A Legendarie [Fr. Legende] conteining an Ample Discourse of the life and behaviour of Charles Cardinal of Lorraine, and the house of Guise.

1592 G. Harvey Foure Lett. iii. 26 I..bury the whole Legendary of his Life, & Death, in the Sepulchre of eternall Silence.

1641 A. H. (title) An exact legendary compendiously containing the whole life of Alderman Abel.

†2. A book of readings for use as lessons in church services; a lectionary, esp. one containing saints' lives; = legend n. 1b. Obsolete.

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society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > lectionary > [noun] > containing saints' lives

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1571 E. Grindal Iniunctions Prouince of Yorke §7. sig. B.iiij Antiphoners, Masse bookes..Processionals, Manualles, Legendaries.

†3. A writer of a story, fable, or legend; spec. a writer of a legendary (see sense A. 1a). Obsolete.In later use only as the subject of a verb introducing indirect speech or reported information in contexts where legendary may be understood as sense A. 1a (cf. say v.¹ 8b, tell v. 2a(a)).

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > legend or folk tale > [noun] > writer or teller of legends

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storyteller1697

1600 M. Sutcliffe New Challenge iv. 83 in Briefe Replie to Libel He can vouch no author, but Simeon Metaphrastes, Iacobus de Voragine, and such legendaries.

1630 W. Travers Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ Angl. x. 80 Their shamelesse Legendaries report indeed, that we haue put men into Beares skinnes, and set dogges to worry them.

1663 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies (1665) 398 The ancient Grecian Historians and more Modern Legendaries studied onely to make their Relations miraculous enough.

1749 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. I 59 The Legendaries own, that St. Catharine was slandered as a fond and light woman.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxxv. 407 The ancient legendaries deserve some regard, as they are obliged to connect their fables with the real history of their own times.

a1797 S. T. Coleridge Effusion in Compl. Poet. Wks. (1912) II. App. 1022 Music such as erst Round rosy bowers (so Legendaries tell) To sleeping Maids came floating witchingly.

1849 J. Grant Mem. Kirkaldy vii. 67 A..monastery, built..by special desire (say the legendaries) of St. Michel the archangel.

1917 Amer. Catholic Q. Rev. Apr. 337 The old-time nation of Quivera, which, so the legendaries say, died of inanition generations before Columbus scanned the Western shore.

†4. A person, event, etc., whose existence or occurrence has no historical foundation. Obsolete.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > legend or folk tale > [noun] > legendary personage

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a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) 474 The expunging of some Saints (which they falsly call Legendaries) out of the Kalendar.

1689 tr. Let. in tr. P. Jurieu Pastoral Lett. (new ed.) sig. Rr^v We do maintain that all the Miracles of the Church of Rome, those of St. Bernard, as well as others, are Legendaries, Tales, or Illusions of the Evil Spirit.

5. With the. That which is legendary in nature.

ΚΠ

1844 New Englander July 372/2 The story of Jesus however, as we find it in the New Testament, is incredible and absurd. It is a mixture of the legendary, the mythical and the true.

1871 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue Introd. 26 Something of the legendary hangs over his personal history.

1909 Westm. Gaz. 10 July 2/3 It is very difficult to distinguish the legendary from the historical in the Gospels.

1999 J. T. Jones Jack Kerouac's Duluoz Legend x. 242 It is replicated on every level, from the personal and familial..to the legendary, the religious, and the mythical.

B. adj.

a. Relating to or concerned with legends; constituting or of the nature of legend.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > legend or folk tale > [adjective]

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1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. i. 124/1 Among all other euidences and declarations sufficient to disproue this legendary story of S. Alban, nothing maketh more against it, then the very storye it selfe.

1625 T. James Manuduction Divinitie 70 This long and tedious legendarie Storie.

1641 J. Milton Of Prelatical Episc. 8 That other legendarie piece found among the lives of the Saints..does but bear the name of Poly[c]rates.

1719 G. Sewell Epist. from Hampstead 6 Lowly I sing in legendary Lays..'Till Fortune shall our social Nights renew.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. ix. 393 The character given of them in the legendary accounts of the Romish Missionaries.

1796 Bp. R. Watson Apol. for Bible 237 Had they agreed in nothing, their testimony ought to have been rejected as a legendary tale.

1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands I. 223 We find all the Seven Hills embraced within a fortification which the legendary history ascribes to Servius Tullius.

1894 Catholic World Oct. 121 In Irish legendary lore this personage has the place..that Mercury holds in the oldest Hellenic myths.

1900 J. G. Frazer Pausanias 45 Relics of a mythical or legendary past.

1923 D. A. Mackenzie Myths China & Japan xv. 277 He [sc. Hwang-Ti] belongs, of course, to the mythical period..in Chinese legendary history.

1997 O. B. Hardison Poetics & Praxis ii. 91 In good Renaissance fashion, Shakespeare regularly used historical or legendary sources for his tragedies.

†b. Writing or relating legends; spec. designating the author of a legendary (see sense A. 1a). Chiefly in legendary writer. Obsolete.In later uses perhaps the noun used as the first element of a compound.

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society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > [adjective] > literature about > story or account of

legendary1604

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > legend or folk tale > [adjective] > writing or telling legends

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1604 Abp. G. Abbot Reasons Dr. Hill Vnmasked vi. 246 Your late Legendary writers to whome anone you must haue recourse.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. viii. 33 Not to meddle at all with miraculous Authours, or any Legendary relators.

1685 E. Stillingfleet Origines Britannicæ i. 45 These Proofs..depend chiefly on the authority of Simeon Metaphrastes or other Legendary Writers.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. vii. 212 These legendary writers, of whose misrepresentations and falsities we had almost daily experience.

1778 C. Rogers Coll. Prints II. 48 Another Legendary Author I have before me..says that God, appeased by the tears of St. Gregory, recalled Trajan to life.

1854 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 14/2 He was famous for his miracles, and even, says a legendary writer..one of especial significance.

1898 A. G. Mackey Hist. Freemasonry I. xxiv. 155 Dr. Oliver, one of the latest and the most prolific of the legendary writers, although in his own theory he seeks to trace the origin of Freemasonry to a much more remote antiquity.

a. Described or related in legends (as opposed to reliable historical sources). In early use sometimes more generally: †having no foundation in fact; supposed, fictitious (obsolete).

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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [adjective] > only in imagination or unreal

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affectual1614

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supposititious1620

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visionary1725

metaphysical1728

unrealized1767

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ideate1966

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fantastic-

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > a false or foolish tale > [adjective]

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1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 105/1 All which legendary miracles I leaue to the reader to iudge of them, as shall seeme good vnto hym.

1679 J. Goodman Penitent Pardoned iii. iv. 321 These things are no Romances, nor have I dressed up any legendary Hero.

1698 D. Kennedy Late Hist. Europe xiii. 69 They are committed Prisoners to the Tower, And that, on the day before the Legendary Birth of the Prince of Wales, that they might not have the opportunity..to be present, or make inspection into that pious fraud.

1705 M. Geddes Misc. Tracts II. 194 Alexandria was but little, if it was at all, known in the West, in the Legendary Ages.

1779 Scots Mag. Oct. 513/1 The legendary age which preceded the period of history.

1838 R. Southey St. Gualberto xxiv, in Poet. Wks. VI. 201 Dost thou deem the legendary deeds Of saints like this but rubbish?

1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) ii. 132 The view, whether historical or legendary, of Mahomet over Damascus.

1895 Midland Monthly Dec. 507/1 Away back in the legendary period, women were highly educated and greatly esteemed by men.

1964 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. 16 July (1995) 347 It started with a father-son affinity between Edwin and Elwin of the present, and was supposed to go back into legendary time by way of an Eädwine and Ælfwine of circa A.D. 918.

1992 New Brunswick Trav. Guide 86/1 The Scottish and Irish settlers of centuries past left a legacy of legendary ghosts.

2000 W. Wootten in J. McGonigal & R. Price Star You Steer by ii. 32 The wrath of Achilles or of Bloodaxe..exists in a legendary time that makes such existences both exemplary and other.

b. spec. Celebrated or acclaimed in legends; known or renowned from ancient stories or myths.

ΚΠ

1705 R. Blackmore Eliza iv. 88 Whose Spoils are truly Albion's Golden Fleece, Outvying that of Legendary Greece.

1798 W. F. Mavor Brit. Tourists I. 92 Cesarius, a legendary hero of gigantic stature.

1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess ii. 29 Glanced at the legendary Amazon As emblematic of a nobler age.

1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 261 The legendary Pythagoras is said to have sacrificed a hecatomb.

1914 A. L. Cross Hist. Eng. & Greater Brit. xiii. 224 Among a mass of ballads the best known are those which relate the deeds of the legendary outlaw Robin Hood.

2004 Studies 93 346 Pearse created a mythological spiritual lineage of republicanism in Ireland that is descended from the legendary warrior Cuchulain.

c. Very well-known, famous.Now the most common sense.

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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > state of being well-known > [adjective]

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1832 W. Irving Alhambra I. 78 His grandfather, a little legendary tailor,..lived to the age of nearly a hundred years.

1841 Punch 16 Oct. 165/1 They retail anatomical paradoxes, technical puns, and legendary ‘catch questions’, which from time immemorial have been the delight of all new men.

1862 C. E. Wilbour tr. V. Hugo Les Misérables v. 58/1 The sewer of Paris, in the Middle Ages, was legendary.

1949 Billboard 16 July 17/4 A legendary jazz figure, he began his career in New Orleans.

1988 G. Goodson Fishes of Pacific Coast 217 Its [sc. a swordfish's] aggressiveness is legendary, and many a skipper has limped home with gaping holes in the side of his boat.

2012 Daily Tel. 2 Mar. 9/4 Engelbert Humperdinck... With his square jaw,..luscious lips and legendary sideburns.

3. Numismatics. Designating a circular area around the edge of a coin containing the legend (legend n. 8a). Only in legendary circle. Now historical.

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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [adjective] > part of coin

legendary1762

exergual1856

1762 T. Snelling View Silver Coin Eng. 12 The reverse has a cross patee, extending to the edge of the Coin quite thro' the legendary circle.

1819 R. Ruding Ann. Coinage Brit. & its Dependencies (ed. 2) V. 159 But the bust expended into the legendary circle.

1830 E. Hawkins Anglo-Fr. Coinage 9 Between the outer angles and the inner legendary circle.

1868 J. Wingate Illustr. Coinage Scotl. 20 The discovery of the statement in the chronicle of Mailross that in A.D. 1250 it was decreed that the cross should in future pass through the legendary circle, has fortunately removed the difficulty.

1901 A. B. Richardson Catal. Sc. Coins in National Mus. Antiq. Edinb. 362 Tressure of seven arcs; chain-work legendary circles on the obverse.

1999 Brit. Numismatic Jrnl. 68 83 Alexander III, second coinage..; bent; about half of legendary circle missing.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	legendary
释义	legendaryn.adj. Brit. /ˈlɛdʒ(ə)nd(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈlɛdʒənˌdɛri/ Forms: 1500s–1600s legendarie, 1500s– legendary. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: Latin legendarium ; legendary adj.; Latin legendarius. Etymology: As noun partly < post-classical Latin legendarium (also legendarius) collection of saints' lives (from 12th cent. in British and continental sources; < legenda (see legend n.) + classical Latin -ārium -ary suffix¹), and partly (in sense A. 3) < legendary adj. (compare the French parallel cited below). As adjective < post-classical Latin legendarius, adjective (1563) < legenda + classical Latin -ārius -ary suffix¹. Compare Middle French legendaire (French légendaire ) collection of saints' lives (1402), compiler of a legendary (1582); the use as adjective is not paralleled in French until much later than in English (1836 in sense B. 2a, 1848 in sense B. 2b). A. n. 1. a. A collection of saints' lives. Also more generally: a collection of stories or legends. Cf. legend n. 3a, 3b.In quot. a1513 with the, with reference to the Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine (see legend n. 3b). ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > [noun] > literature about > story or account of > collection of legendc1400 legendarya1513 sanctiloge1526 sanctology1824 sanctilogy1867 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > legend or folk tale > [noun] > collection of legendarya1513 a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xxiii. sig. i.i^v Amonge her systers all She caused to be redde..The swete legendary, for a memoryall. 1581 T. Newton tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. St. Peter & St. Jude f. 22 By this meanes doe thei drawe vs from the Woorde of God, to their liyng Legendaries, and Deuelishe obedience. 1616 R. Sheldon Suruey Miracles Church of Rome 330 You haue in your Legendaries, in your vitis Patrum, in your Rosarie beatae Virginis, many most idle tales. 1675 G. Meriton Anglorum Gesta v. 65 This is him [sc. Arthur] of whom so many Incredible things are reported in the Monkish Legendaries, that they make his true Atchievements questionable. 1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ 280 That Legendary Triumvirate found ways..to fob into Tinmouth's Gold-finding Legendary their own production of Winefred's Life. 1859 Ulster Jrnl. Archæol. 7 310 The Vita Mariani, even, has not been discovered in Regensburg, but by a happy chance was found in Austrian legendaries. 1874 Chambers's Encycl. (rev. ed.) VI. 584/2 The cycle of Midrashsagas..which are reproduced variously in Moslem Legendaries. 1907 A. Stein Anc. Khotan I. xiii. 449 The Turkī legendary of Maḥmūd Karam Kābulī, which purports to relate events of the twelfth century a.d. 1950 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. 24 Feb. (1995) 136 You may, perhaps, remember about that work, a long legendary of imaginary times in a ‘high style’, and full of Elves (of a sort). 2002 A. Thacker in A. Thacker & R. Sharpe Local Saints & Local Churches i. 34 Native saints..enjoyed sufficient prestige to engender a group of early Latin Lives together in a legendary. †b. A story, an account, a history; = legend n. 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > a narrative or account talec1200 historyc1230 sawc1320 tellinga1325 treatisec1374 chroniclec1380 process?1387 legendc1390 prosec1390 pistlec1395 treatc1400 relationc1425 rehearsal?a1439 report?a1439 narrationc1449 recorda1450 count1477 redec1480 story1489 recount1490 deductiona1532 repetition1533 narrative1539 discourse1546 account1561 recital1561 enarrative1575 legendary1577 enarration1592 recite1594 repeat1609 texture1611 recitation1614 rendera1616 prospect1625 recitement1646 tell1743 diegesis1829 récit1915 narrative line1953 1577 tr. F. De L'Isle (title) A Legendarie [Fr. Legende] conteining an Ample Discourse of the life and behaviour of Charles Cardinal of Lorraine, and the house of Guise. 1592 G. Harvey Foure Lett. iii. 26 I..bury the whole Legendary of his Life, & Death, in the Sepulchre of eternall Silence. 1641 A. H. (title) An exact legendary compendiously containing the whole life of Alderman Abel. †2. A book of readings for use as lessons in church services; a lectionary, esp. one containing saints' lives; = legend n. 1b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > lectionary > [noun] > containing saints' lives legend1429 legendary1571 synaxarion1850 1571 E. Grindal Iniunctions Prouince of Yorke §7. sig. B.iiij Antiphoners, Masse bookes..Processionals, Manualles, Legendaries. †3. A writer of a story, fable, or legend; spec. a writer of a legendary (see sense A. 1a). Obsolete.In later use only as the subject of a verb introducing indirect speech or reported information in contexts where legendary may be understood as sense A. 1a (cf. say v.¹ 8b, tell v. 2a(a)). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > legend or folk tale > [noun] > writer or teller of legends legendary1600 legender1602 legendist1616 storyteller1697 1600 M. Sutcliffe New Challenge iv. 83 in Briefe Replie to Libel He can vouch no author, but Simeon Metaphrastes, Iacobus de Voragine, and such legendaries. 1630 W. Travers Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ Angl. x. 80 Their shamelesse Legendaries report indeed, that we haue put men into Beares skinnes, and set dogges to worry them. 1663 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies (1665) 398 The ancient Grecian Historians and more Modern Legendaries studied onely to make their Relations miraculous enough. 1749 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. I 59 The Legendaries own, that St. Catharine was slandered as a fond and light woman. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxxv. 407 The ancient legendaries deserve some regard, as they are obliged to connect their fables with the real history of their own times. a1797 S. T. Coleridge Effusion in Compl. Poet. Wks. (1912) II. App. 1022 Music such as erst Round rosy bowers (so Legendaries tell) To sleeping Maids came floating witchingly. 1849 J. Grant Mem. Kirkaldy vii. 67 A..monastery, built..by special desire (say the legendaries) of St. Michel the archangel. 1917 Amer. Catholic Q. Rev. Apr. 337 The old-time nation of Quivera, which, so the legendaries say, died of inanition generations before Columbus scanned the Western shore. †4. A person, event, etc., whose existence or occurrence has no historical foundation. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > legend or folk tale > [noun] > legendary personage legendarya1662 a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) 474 The expunging of some Saints (which they falsly call Legendaries) out of the Kalendar. 1689 tr. Let. in tr. P. Jurieu Pastoral Lett. (new ed.) sig. Rr^v We do maintain that all the Miracles of the Church of Rome, those of St. Bernard, as well as others, are Legendaries, Tales, or Illusions of the Evil Spirit. 5. With the. That which is legendary in nature. ΚΠ 1844 New Englander July 372/2 The story of Jesus however, as we find it in the New Testament, is incredible and absurd. It is a mixture of the legendary, the mythical and the true. 1871 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue Introd. 26 Something of the legendary hangs over his personal history. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 10 July 2/3 It is very difficult to distinguish the legendary from the historical in the Gospels. 1999 J. T. Jones Jack Kerouac's Duluoz Legend x. 242 It is replicated on every level, from the personal and familial..to the legendary, the religious, and the mythical. B. adj. 1. a. Relating to or concerned with legends; constituting or of the nature of legend. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > legend or folk tale > [adjective] legendary1570 legendous1686 traditional1794 traditionary1794 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. i. 124/1 Among all other euidences and declarations sufficient to disproue this legendary story of S. Alban, nothing maketh more against it, then the very storye it selfe. 1625 T. James Manuduction Divinitie 70 This long and tedious legendarie Storie. 1641 J. Milton Of Prelatical Episc. 8 That other legendarie piece found among the lives of the Saints..does but bear the name of Poly[c]rates. 1719 G. Sewell Epist. from Hampstead 6 Lowly I sing in legendary Lays..'Till Fortune shall our social Nights renew. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. ix. 393 The character given of them in the legendary accounts of the Romish Missionaries. 1796 Bp. R. Watson Apol. for Bible 237 Had they agreed in nothing, their testimony ought to have been rejected as a legendary tale. 1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands I. 223 We find all the Seven Hills embraced within a fortification which the legendary history ascribes to Servius Tullius. 1894 Catholic World Oct. 121 In Irish legendary lore this personage has the place..that Mercury holds in the oldest Hellenic myths. 1900 J. G. Frazer Pausanias 45 Relics of a mythical or legendary past. 1923 D. A. Mackenzie Myths China & Japan xv. 277 He [sc. Hwang-Ti] belongs, of course, to the mythical period..in Chinese legendary history. 1997 O. B. Hardison Poetics & Praxis ii. 91 In good Renaissance fashion, Shakespeare regularly used historical or legendary sources for his tragedies. †b. Writing or relating legends; spec. designating the author of a legendary (see sense A. 1a). Chiefly in legendary writer. Obsolete.In later uses perhaps the noun used as the first element of a compound. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > [adjective] > literature about > story or account of legendary1604 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > legend or folk tale > [adjective] > writing or telling legends legendary1604 1604 Abp. G. Abbot Reasons Dr. Hill Vnmasked vi. 246 Your late Legendary writers to whome anone you must haue recourse. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. viii. 33 Not to meddle at all with miraculous Authours, or any Legendary relators. View more context for this quotation 1685 E. Stillingfleet Origines Britannicæ i. 45 These Proofs..depend chiefly on the authority of Simeon Metaphrastes or other Legendary Writers. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. vii. 212 These legendary writers, of whose misrepresentations and falsities we had almost daily experience. 1778 C. Rogers Coll. Prints II. 48 Another Legendary Author I have before me..says that God, appeased by the tears of St. Gregory, recalled Trajan to life. 1854 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 14/2 He was famous for his miracles, and even, says a legendary writer..one of especial significance. 1898 A. G. Mackey Hist. Freemasonry I. xxiv. 155 Dr. Oliver, one of the latest and the most prolific of the legendary writers, although in his own theory he seeks to trace the origin of Freemasonry to a much more remote antiquity. 2. a. Described or related in legends (as opposed to reliable historical sources). In early use sometimes more generally: †having no foundation in fact; supposed, fictitious (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [adjective] > only in imagination or unreal imaginary?1510 imaginative1517 rational1530 fantastical1531 fantasied1561 airy1565 fancied1568 legendary1570 dreamed1597 fabled1606 ideal1611 fictive1612 affectual1614 insubstantiala1616 imaginatorya1618 supposititious1620 fictitious1621 utopian1624 utopic1624 notional1629 affective1633 fictiousa1644 notionary1646 figmental1655 suppositious1655 fict1677 visionary1725 metaphysical1728 unrealized1767 fancy1801 nice-spun1801 subjective1815 aerial1829 transcendental1835 cardboardy1863 mythical1870 cardboard1879 fictionary1882 figmentary1887 alternative1939 alternate1944 fantasized1964 ideate1966 fanciful- fantastic- the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > a false or foolish tale > [adjective] fabulous1555 legendary1570 poetic1610 mythological1614 romantic1654 mythologic1664 legendous1686 fabular1690 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 105/1 All which legendary miracles I leaue to the reader to iudge of them, as shall seeme good vnto hym. 1679 J. Goodman Penitent Pardoned iii. iv. 321 These things are no Romances, nor have I dressed up any legendary Hero. 1698 D. Kennedy Late Hist. Europe xiii. 69 They are committed Prisoners to the Tower, And that, on the day before the Legendary Birth of the Prince of Wales, that they might not have the opportunity..to be present, or make inspection into that pious fraud. 1705 M. Geddes Misc. Tracts II. 194 Alexandria was but little, if it was at all, known in the West, in the Legendary Ages. 1779 Scots Mag. Oct. 513/1 The legendary age which preceded the period of history. 1838 R. Southey St. Gualberto xxiv, in Poet. Wks. VI. 201 Dost thou deem the legendary deeds Of saints like this but rubbish? 1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) ii. 132 The view, whether historical or legendary, of Mahomet over Damascus. 1895 Midland Monthly Dec. 507/1 Away back in the legendary period, women were highly educated and greatly esteemed by men. 1964 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. 16 July (1995) 347 It started with a father-son affinity between Edwin and Elwin of the present, and was supposed to go back into legendary time by way of an Eädwine and Ælfwine of circa A.D. 918. 1992 New Brunswick Trav. Guide 86/1 The Scottish and Irish settlers of centuries past left a legacy of legendary ghosts. 2000 W. Wootten in J. McGonigal & R. Price Star You Steer by ii. 32 The wrath of Achilles or of Bloodaxe..exists in a legendary time that makes such existences both exemplary and other. b. spec. Celebrated or acclaimed in legends; known or renowned from ancient stories or myths. ΚΠ 1705 R. Blackmore Eliza iv. 88 Whose Spoils are truly Albion's Golden Fleece, Outvying that of Legendary Greece. 1798 W. F. Mavor Brit. Tourists I. 92 Cesarius, a legendary hero of gigantic stature. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess ii. 29 Glanced at the legendary Amazon As emblematic of a nobler age. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 261 The legendary Pythagoras is said to have sacrificed a hecatomb. 1914 A. L. Cross Hist. Eng. & Greater Brit. xiii. 224 Among a mass of ballads the best known are those which relate the deeds of the legendary outlaw Robin Hood. 2004 Studies 93 346 Pearse created a mythological spiritual lineage of republicanism in Ireland that is descended from the legendary warrior Cuchulain. c. Very well-known, famous.Now the most common sense. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > state of being well-known > [adjective] namecouthOE ykida1100 kida1250 rifea1325 notory1399 notaryc1400 well-known?a1425 notified1530 well acquainteda1535 célèbre1539 notorious1555 famosea1632 public1650 legendary1832 big1954 visible1977 1832 W. Irving Alhambra I. 78 His grandfather, a little legendary tailor,..lived to the age of nearly a hundred years. 1841 Punch 16 Oct. 165/1 They retail anatomical paradoxes, technical puns, and legendary ‘catch questions’, which from time immemorial have been the delight of all new men. 1862 C. E. Wilbour tr. V. Hugo Les Misérables v. 58/1 The sewer of Paris, in the Middle Ages, was legendary. 1949 Billboard 16 July 17/4 A legendary jazz figure, he began his career in New Orleans. 1988 G. Goodson Fishes of Pacific Coast 217 Its [sc. a swordfish's] aggressiveness is legendary, and many a skipper has limped home with gaping holes in the side of his boat. 2012 Daily Tel. 2 Mar. 9/4 Engelbert Humperdinck... With his square jaw,..luscious lips and legendary sideburns. 3. Numismatics. Designating a circular area around the edge of a coin containing the legend (legend n. 8a). Only in legendary circle. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [adjective] > part of coin legendary1762 exergual1856 1762 T. Snelling View Silver Coin Eng. 12 The reverse has a cross patee, extending to the edge of the Coin quite thro' the legendary circle. 1819 R. Ruding Ann. Coinage Brit. & its Dependencies (ed. 2) V. 159 But the bust expended into the legendary circle. 1830 E. Hawkins Anglo-Fr. Coinage 9 Between the outer angles and the inner legendary circle. 1868 J. Wingate Illustr. Coinage Scotl. 20 The discovery of the statement in the chronicle of Mailross that in A.D. 1250 it was decreed that the cross should in future pass through the legendary circle, has fortunately removed the difficulty. 1901 A. B. Richardson Catal. Sc. Coins in National Mus. Antiq. Edinb. 362 Tressure of seven arcs; chain-work legendary circles on the obverse. 1999 Brit. Numismatic Jrnl. 68 83 Alexander III, second coinage..; bent; about half of legendary circle missing. 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