Eu*hem"er*ism (?) n. [L. Euhemerus, Gr. a philosopher, about 300 .]
The theory, held by Euhemerus, that the gods of mythology were but deified mortals, and their deeds only the amplification in imagination of human acts.
© Webster 1913.
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