Mythe

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mythe \Mythe\, n.
     See {Myth}. --Grote.
     [1913 Webster] Mythic

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Myth \Myth\ (m[i^]th), n. [Written also {mythe}.] [Gr. my^qos
     myth, fable, tale, talk, speech: cf. F. mythe.]
     1. A story of great but unknown age which originally embodied
        a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience,
        and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul
        are personified; an ancient legend of a god, a hero, the
        origin of a race, etc.; a wonder story of prehistoric
        origin; a popular fable which is, or has been, received as
        historical.
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     2. A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose
        actual existence is not verifiable.
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              As for Mrs. Primmins's bones, they had been myths
              these twenty years.                   --Ld. Lytton.
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     {Myth history}, history made of, or mixed with, myths.
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