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mythological

[mith-uh-loj-i-kuhl]

Origin

adjective

of or pertaining to mythology.

imaginary; fictitious.

Also, myth·o·log·ic.

Origin:
1605–15; < Late Latin mȳthologic(us) < Greek mȳthologikós (see mythology, -ic) + -al¹

Related forms

myth·o·log·i·cal·ly, adverb

non·myth·o·log·ic, adjective

non·myth·o·log·i·cal, adjective

non·myth·o·log·i·cal·ly, adverb

un·myth·o·log·i·cal, adjective

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un·myth·o·log·i·cal·ly, adverb

COLLAPSE

Can be confused: mythical, mythological.

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opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, esp. the Anglican Church in 19th-century England.

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mythological (ˌmɪθəˈlɒdʒɪk^əl)

—*adj*
1.	of or relating to mythology
2.	mythical

mythologically

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

mythological

1610s, from L.L. mythologicus, from Gk. mythologikos, from mythologia (see mythology). Related: Mythologically.

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"So, too, no doubt, Homer had his Homer, and Orpheus his Orpheus, in the dim antiquity which preceded them. The mythological system of the ancients,—and it is still the mythology of the moderns, the poem of mankind,—interwoven so wonderfully with their astronomy, and matching in grandeur and harmony the architecture of the heavens themselves, seems to point to a time when a mightier genius inhabited the earth. But, after all, man is the great poet, and not Homer nor Shakespeare; and our language itself, and the common arts of life, are his work. Poetry is so universally true and independent of experience that it does not need any particular biography to illustrate it, but we refer it sooner or later to some Orpheus or Linus, and after ages to the genius of humanity and the gods themselves."

-Henry David Thoreau

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