Ectypal
//ɛkˈtaɪpəl// adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Copied, as contrasted with an archetypal original.
- 2 Corresponding to external reality.
"What would you have! do I not acknowledge a twofold state of things, the one ectypal or natural, the other archetypal and eternal? The former was created in time; the latter existed from everlasting in the mind of God."
Example
More examples"What would you have! do I not acknowledge a twofold state of things, the one ectypal or natural, the other archetypal and eternal? The former was created in time; the latter existed from everlasting in the mind of God."
Etymology
From ectype + -al.
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