Hylic

//ˈhaɪlɪk// adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The basest type of man in the gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping; a person focused on neither intellectual (psychic) nor spiritual (pneumatic) reality.
Adjective
  1. 1
    Having to do with, or of the nature of, matter. not-comparable

    "three orders of beings,—the spiritual, physical and hylic natures."

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bodilycorporalcorporealearthlyfleshlyhyletic

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"three orders of beings,—the spiritual, physical and hylic natures."

Etymology

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

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