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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, “matter”) + -ist.
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hyloist (plural hyloists)
- (now rare, historical) Someone who believes that matter is God, or that there is no distinction between the two; a materialist.
1818, Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey, section VII:But, leaving for the present, as far as relates to the material world, the materialists, hyloists, and antihyloists, to settle this point among them […] : we may very safely assert that the esse of happiness is percipi. It exists as it is perceived.
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