mythologue

English

Etymology

See mythology.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪθəlɒɡ/

Noun

mythologue (plural mythologues)

1. A fabulous narrative; a myth.
   • 1797, Alexander Geddes, The Holy Bible, or the Books accounted sacred by Jews and Christians, otherwise called the books of the Old and New Covenant; faithfully translated from corrected texts of the originals. With various readings, explanatory notes, and critical remarks:

     May we not […] consider his history of the fall as an excellent mythologue, to account for the origin of human evil?

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “mythologue”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

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Noun

mythologue m or f by sense (plural mythologues)

1. mythologist

   Synonym: mythologiste

Further reading

• “mythologue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.