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English
Etymology
1820s, from earlier German use; earlier hylical (1708). From Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē, “matter”) + -ic (“of or pertaining to”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
hylic (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
Noun
hylic (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
person focused on material reality