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Definition of Hylic
1. a. Of or pertaining to matter; material; corporeal; as, hylic influences.
Definition of Hylic
1. Adjective. Having to do with or of the nature of matter or material. ¹
2. Noun. (gnosticism) In gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man the basest type; a person focused on neither intellectual (psychic) nor spiritual (pneumatic) reality. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hylic
1. material [adj]
Medical Definition of Hylic
1. Of or pertaining to essential matter; obsolete term denoting the pulp tissue of the embryo. Origin: G. Hylikos fr. Hyle, matter (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hylic
Literary usage of Hylic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Theological Dictionary, Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms: A by Charles Buck (1815)
"... or emanations,'under the terms the word, the life, the light, &c. They divided
all nature into three kinds of beings, viz. hylic, ..."
2. A Biographical, Historical and Chronological Dictionary: Containing a ...by John Watkins by John Watkins (1806)
"... ¡¡hylic, and took his degree in that faculty at Balil. The city of Bern
appointed him public ..."
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