Mystic (n.) One given to mysticism; one who holds mystical views, interpretations, etc.; especially, in ecclesiastical history, one who professed mysticism. See Mysticism.
Mysticete (n.) Any right whale, or whalebone whale. See Cetacea.
Mysticism (n.) Obscurity of doctrine.
Mysticism (n.) The doctrine of the Mystics, who professed a pure, sublime, and wholly disinterested devotion, and maintained that they had direct intercourse with the divine Spirit, and aquired a knowledge of God and of spiritual things unattainable by the natural intellect, and such as can not be analyzed or explained.
Mysticism (n.) The doctrine that the ultimate elements or principles of knowledge or belief are gained by an act or process akin to feeling or faith.
Mystification (n.) The act of mystifying, or the state of being mystied; also, something designed to, or that does, mystify.
Mystificator (n.) One who mystifies.
Mystified (imp. & p. p.) of Mystify
Mystifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mystify
Mystify (v. t.) To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand; as, to mystify a passage of Scripture.
Mystify (v. t.) To perplex the mind of; to puzzle; to impose upon the credulity of ; as, to mystify an opponent.
Mytacism (n.) Too frequent use of the letter m, or of the sound represented by it.
Myth (n.) 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.
Myth (n.) A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable.
Mythe (n.) See Myth.
Mythic (a.) Alt. of Mythical
Mythical (a.) Of or relating to myths; described in a myth; of the nature of a myth; fabulous; imaginary; fanciful.
Mythographer (n.) A composer of fables.
Mythologer (n.) A mythologist.
Mythologian (n.) A mythologist.
Mythologic (a.) Alt. of Mythological
Mythological (a.) Of or pertaining to mythology or to myths; mythical; fabulous.
Mythologist (n.) One versed in, or who writes on, mythology or myths.
Mythologize (v. i.) To relate, classify, and explain, or attempt to explain, myths; to write upon myths.
Mythologize (v. i.) To construct and propagate myths.
Mythologizer (n.) One who, or that which, mythologizes.
Mythologue (n.) A fabulous narrative; a myth.
Mythologies (pl. ) of Mythology
Mythology (n.) The science which treats of myths; a treatise on myths.
Mythology (n.) A body of myths; esp., the collective myths which describe the gods of a heathen people; as, the mythology of the Greeks.
Mythoplasm (n.) A narration of mere fable.
Mythopoeic (a.) Making or producing myths; giving rise to mythical narratives.
Mythopoetic (a.) Making or producing myths or mythical tales.
Mytiloid (a.) Like, or pertaining to, the genus Mytilus, or family Mytilidae.
Mytilotoxine (n.) A poisonous base (leucomaine) found in the common mussel. It either causes paralysis of the muscles, or gives rise to convulsions, including death by an accumulation of carbonic acid in the blood.
Mytilus (n.) A genus of marine bivalve shells, including the common mussel. See Illust. under Byssus.
Myxa (n.) The distal end of the mandibles of a bird.
Myxine (n.) A genus of marsipobranchs, including the hagfish. See Hag, 4.
Myxinoid (a.) Like, or pertaining to, the genus Myxine.
Myxinoid (n.) A hagfish.
Myxocystodea (n. pl.) A division of Infusoria including the Noctiluca. See Noctiluca.
Myxomata (pl. ) of Myxoma
Myxoma (n.) A tumor made up of a gelatinous tissue resembling that found in the umbilical cord.
Myxopod (n.) A rhizopod or moneran. Also used adjectively; as, a myxopod state.
Myzontes (n. pl.) The Marsipobranchiata.
Myzostomata (n. pl.) An order of curious parasitic worms found on crinoids. The body is short and disklike, with four pairs of suckers and five pairs of hook-bearing parapodia on the under side.