mythic

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The early races of men became semi-mythic, their beliefs, their experiences, receded into a land of mist, where their figures assumed fantastic outlines, and the record of their deeds departed more and more widely from historic accuracy The poets and dreamers wove their magic webs, and a world apart from the world of actual experience came to life.

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  1. Same as mythical.

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  • The whole feel of the book is emotionally larger and mythic, and the latter isn't due simply to the Native American-like fables that introduce each of the book's five parts. —  FSFOct/Nov2004
  • Oprah's struggle with her weight has become almost mythic -- it's not just that she's been so open and honest about it, but that millions of people share her story. —  CNN.com
  • I think it's mythic, ambitious and beautiful ... and also frightening. —  FlickFilosopher.com
  • Nina Paley 's mythic, animated work-in-progress opus plus animated gems. —  GreenCine Daily
  • Beyond his literary influence he has a kind of mythic status: an existential anti-hero, a —  Expecting Rain
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  1. = French mythique = Spanish mítico = Portuguese mythico = Italian mitico (D. G. mythisch = Danish mythisk = Swedish mytisk), from Latin mythicus, from Greek μυθικός, pertaining to a myth, legendary, from μῦθος, a myth: see myth.
 

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