单词 | mythist |
释义 | mythistn. Now rare. = mythicist n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > mythology > [noun] > interpretation of supernatural events as myths > one who mythicizer1840 mythist1841 mythicist1871 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes i. 43 He is careful not to insinuate that the old Greek Mythists had any notion of lecturing about the ‘Philosophy of Criticism’! 1859 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 14 The Positivist worships virtuous human nature, conditioned and limited as it is; while the Mythist worshipped it reflected on the outer world and endowed with supernatural attributes. 1861 W. H. Mill Observ. Gospel (ed. 2) ii. ii. 172 On the system of the mythists, these purely Jewish circumstances of the Nativity should have been told by the Hebrew Gospel. 1865 Ladies' Repository Jan. 63/2 Many German and English writers..are drawn upon for their keenest weapons against Strauss and the mythists of Germany. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1841 |
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