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Mythic

adjective

Relating to or having the nature of myth.

Based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity. Synonyms: fabulous, mythical, mythologic, mythological. "The fabulous unicorn"

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"Mythic" Quotes from Famous Books

... both at Liverpool and in the British Museum; and near them, probably, specimens of the new-old Crinoids, discovered of late years by Professor Sars, Mr. Gwyn Jeffreys, Dr. Carpenter, Dr. Wyville Thomson, and the other deep- sea disciples of the mythic Glaucus, the fisherman, who, enamoured of the wonders of the sea, plunged into the blue abyss once and for all, and became himself "the blue old ...

— Glaucus; or The Wonders of the Shore • Charles Kingsley

... sudden desire, amounting almost to anxiety, to learn who was "Aurore." Why? Was it the singularity and beauty of the name,—for novel and beautiful it sounded in my Saxon ears? No. Was it the mere euphony of the word; its mythic associations; its less ideal application to the rosy hours of the Orient, or the shining phosphorescence of the North? Was it any of these associate thoughts that awoke within me this mysterious interest in ...

— The Quadroon - Adventures in the Far West • Mayne Reid

... mythic and poetic words, true to man's abiding sense of evil in his deepest hours, stand to-day in the arsenal of theology as proof-texts of the doctrines of ...

— The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible • R. Heber Newton

Words linked to "Mythic" : fabulous, unreal, mythological, myth