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Definition of Mythopoetic
1. a. Making or producing myths or mythical tales.
Definition of Mythopoetic
1. Adjective. Being a creative interpretation ¹
2. Adjective. (mythology) Given the quality of a myth or a poem, used typically in opposition to a purely factual account ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mythopoetic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mythopoetic
Literary usage of Mythopoetic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Career of the Child by Maximilian Paul Eugen Groszmann (1911)
"Well says AC Ellis, in his "Philosophy of Education":* "The larger correlation
in teaching the mythopoetic and instinctive with the scientific and ..."
2. Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill (1896)
"But no one seems to study the mythopoetic instinct as it manifests itself in
modern life, in the daily refraction of fact through the medium of imagination ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1888)
"But we believe the final verdict of science respecting them will be that they
illustrate the great mythopoetic tendency by which fancy ..."
4. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, Alice Werner (1916)
"Hence, at first, mythopoetic fancy is content to ascribe human action and intention,
human speech and desires, to environing creation; the physical form is ..."
5. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"Such formulae disinfect the soul of interest and dehumanize nature. They are just
as much and just as truly weeds to the boy as his mythopoetic sentiments ..."
6. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1919)
"... Jesus-God as the"Son- of-God," they seized upon the methods and expressions
lying at hand in the mythopoetic creations of the pagan world around them, ..."
7. The Bookman (1897)
"from mythopoetic regions and shown, with much warmth of feeling, asa great man
who is at the same time a real man. Of the four others whom I have named the ..."
8. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... and beings whose expressions were embodied in all the environing objects and
powers and phenomena and in many fictions of mythopoetic fancy, which, ..."
9. The Career of the Child by Maximilian Paul Eugen Groszmann (1911)
"Well says AC Ellis, in his "Philosophy of Education":* "The larger correlation
in teaching the mythopoetic and instinctive with the scientific and ..."
10. Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill (1896)
"But no one seems to study the mythopoetic instinct as it manifests itself in
modern life, in the daily refraction of fact through the medium of imagination ..."
11. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1888)
"But we believe the final verdict of science respecting them will be that they
illustrate the great mythopoetic tendency by which fancy ..."
12. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, Alice Werner (1916)
"Hence, at first, mythopoetic fancy is content to ascribe human action and intention,
human speech and desires, to environing creation; the physical form is ..."
13. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"Such formulae disinfect the soul of interest and dehumanize nature. They are just
as much and just as truly weeds to the boy as his mythopoetic sentiments ..."
14. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1919)
"... Jesus-God as the"Son- of-God," they seized upon the methods and expressions
lying at hand in the mythopoetic creations of the pagan world around them, ..."
15. The Bookman (1897)
"from mythopoetic regions and shown, with much warmth of feeling, asa great man
who is at the same time a real man. Of the four others whom I have named the ..."
16. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... and beings whose expressions were embodied in all the environing objects and
powers and phenomena and in many fictions of mythopoetic fancy, which, ..."
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