hylic

Etymology

1820s, from earlier German use; earlier hylical (1708). From Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē, “matter”) + -ic (“of or pertaining to”).

adj

  1. 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 "three orders of beings,—the spiritual, physical and hylic natures." Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger (trans. Edward Cox), A History of the Church, Volume 1 (1840), p. 133.

noun

  1. (Gnosticism) The basest type of man in the gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping; a person focused on neither intellectual (psychic) nor spiritual (pneumatic) reality.

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