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Definition of Euhemerist
1. n. One who advocates euhemerism.
Definition of Euhemerist
1. Noun. someone who upholds the belief of euhemerism ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Euhemerist
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Euhemerist
Literary usage of Euhemerist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... are supposed to make him out to be a euhemerist; but it is to be remembered
that if this work is really a translation from the putative author, ..."
2. The Bookman (1898)
"... not more likely to have seen into the nature of the aboriginal, or savage,
mind, than so very determined a euhemerist as Mr. Grant Allen. William Barry. ..."
3. The Classical Mythology of Milton's English Poems by Charles Grosvenor Osgood (1900)
"dent in a euhemerist like Diodorus, or a moralist like Plutarch. They were later
practised by certain of the fathers, such as Eusebius, and were resumed ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1880)
"Or yu alone, would suggest the name of the euhemerist Pharaoh ^'jn-aten. And the
number of mimes in Egyptian and Hebrew as well as in Sanscrit ending in U, ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"No doubt Berosus was uncritical— he was an euhemerist, like his contemporaries.
But be was honest and learned in cuneiform, ..."
6. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1872)
"He is a mere rationalizing euhemerist. My theory is that the ballad is the product
of the war against Napoleon I.; ..."
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