Definition of Mythopeic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mythopeic

mythologizations
mythologize
mythologized
mythologizer
mythologizers
mythologizes
mythologizing
mythologue
mythologues
mythology
mythomania
mythomaniac
mythomaniacal
mythomaniacs
mythomanias
mythopeic (current term)
mythoplasm
mythoplasms
mythopoeia
mythopoeias
mythopoeic
mythopoeics
mythopoesis
mythopoet
mythopoetic
mythopoetical
mythopoeticize
mythopoeticized
mythopoeticizes
mythopoeticizing

Literary usage of Mythopeic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. All about Hawaii (1919)
"... or it may be called a compendium of the mythopeic ages and periods of old Hawaii reaching even to the times (about 1820 or perhaps before) when the ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"... the highest forms of civilization? and, hence, is it not preceded in ontogenesis, as it was in phylogenesis, by a mythopeic conception of the universe ? ..."

3. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"Sometimes their fancy is almost visualization and develops into a kind of mythopeic faculty which spins clever yarns and suggests in a sense, ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"The miracle of the invention of such a portraiture, whether by the conscious effort of art, or by the unconscious working of the mythopeic fancy, ..."

5. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Emile Joseph Dillon (1920)
"In spite of his recorded acts and utterances the mythopeic faculty of the peoples had given itself free scope and created a messianic democrat destined to ..."

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