hylic
English
editEtymology
edit1820s, from earlier German use; earlier hylical (1708). From Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē, “matter”) + -ic (“of or pertaining to”).
Pronunciation
editAdjective
edithylic (not comparable)
- Having to do with, or of the nature of, matter.
- 1828, “a part of mankind were by original constitution altogether hylic or material”, in The New Jerusalem magazine and theological inspector, page 155:
- 1840, Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger, translated by Edward Cox, A History of the Church Volume 1, page 133:
- three orders of beings,—the spiritual, physical and hylic natures.
Synonyms
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editNoun
edithylic (plural hylics)
- (Gnosticism) The basest type of man in the gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping; a person focused on neither intellectual (psychic) nor spiritual (pneumatic) reality.
Translations
editperson focused on material reality
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