Some of the aetiological myths, such as that of Attus Navius the augur, have no human interest, though they have an historical interest in connexion with early Roman religion or institutions.
Aetiological myths, or the attempt to explain some institution or memorial by some concrete fact, and the systematic reconstruction of forgotten events, have also entered largely into the composition of Roman history.
There is a band which includes seventeen patients, as well as some attendants, and enlivens the inmates twice in the course of the week.
He failed, however, as was to be expected, to make much progress in the work.
Mr. Kinnaird, the member for Perth, thought that the Scotch members owed a debt of gratitude to Mr. Ellice for the manner in which he had laid the disgraceful feature in the administration of the Scotch Poor Law before the House.
An aetiological myth is one which is regarded as having been invented ex post facto to explain some fact, name or coincidence, the true account or origin of which has been forgotten.
A critical analysis of the narrative seems to reveal little else than a series of aetiological traditions (explanatory of cults and customs, e.
Servius gives anaetiological myth to account for the practice.
And from minds of a more reflective cast than the Roman, it received answer in the form of mythology, of aetiological myths.
Aristotle gave a formal expression to the aetiological argument by inferring from the motion of the universe the existence of a first unmoved mover--Phys.
AEtiological reasoning may be detected as a creative factor in the rudest religious creeds.
The argument for the Divine existence which proceeds on the principle of causality is generally called the cosmological argument, but sometimes, and perhaps more accurately, the aetiological argument.
As a rule, the aetiological argument is not skilfully or even carefully treated in the works of recent German theologians.
It is impossible to keep the aetiological argument entirely separate either from the ontological or cosmological argument.
His argumentation may be allowed to have had force against Wolff, but it is weak wherever it is relevant to the aetiological proof rightly understood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aetiological" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
