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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

Euhemerus

, Gr. [GREEK] a philosopher, about 300 [GREEK].]

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.

euhemerism ‎(usually uncountable, plural euhemerisms)

A belief attributing the origins of the gods to the deification of heroes after their deaths.