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Webster 1913 Edition

Mythology

My-thol′o-gy

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Mythologies
(#)
.
[F.
mythologie
, L.
mythologia
, Gr.
μυθολογία
;
μῦθος
, fable, myth +
λόγοσ
speech, discourse.]
1.
The science which treats of myths; a treatise on myths.
2.
A body of myths; esp., the collective myths which describe the gods of a heathen people;
as, the
mythology
of the Greeks
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Mythology

MYTHOL'OGY

,
Noun.
[Gr. a fable, and discourse.] A system of fables or fabulous opinions and doctrines respecting the deities which heathen nations have supposed to preside over the world or to influence the affairs of it.

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