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Definition of Ectypal
1. a. Copied, reproduced as a molding or cast, in contradistinction from the original model.
Definition of Ectypal
1. Adjective. Copied, as contrasted with an archetypal original. Has a specialised sense when used by the philosopher George Berkeley. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ectypal
1. ectype [adj] - See also: ectype
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ectypal
Literary usage of Ectypal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopedia of Sacred Theology: Its Principles by Abraham Kuyper (1898)
"ectypal Theology the Fruit of Revelation The ... And though in the preceding
section it was maintained that the ectypal knowledge of God did not arise from ..."
2. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1897)
"And unlike Plato's idle Uni- versals, it is conceived as energising freely on
us, thereby calling into reality the phenomenal or ectypal object we know. ..."
3. The Metaphysics of Nature by Carveth Read (1905)
"Not that it is present to Him sensibly as it is to us; but " there is a twofold
state of things, the one ectypal or natural, the other archetypal and ..."
4. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (1899)
"Setting aside the exaggerations of expression in the writings of this philosopher,
the mental power exhibited in this ascent from the ectypal mode of ..."
5. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David ( Hume (1898)
"Let ua once more put it to trial. lu all instances which we have ever seen, ideas
are copied from real objects, and are ectypal, not archetypal, ..."
6. Proceedings by National Speech Arts Association (1893)
"... immutable and immaterial form or model of an object, an archetype or pattern,
according to which the Deity fashioned the phenomenal or ectypal world. ..."
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