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Definition of Hylozoic
1. a. Of or pertaining to hylozoism.
Definition of Hylozoic
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to hylozoism. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hylozoic
1. pertaining to the doctrine that life and matter are inseparable [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hylozoic
Literary usage of Hylozoic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. What is Darwinism? by Charles Hodge (1874)
"hylozoic Theory. This theory assumes the universe to be eternal. ... This hylozoic
doctrine, some modern scientific men, as Professor Tyndall, seem inclined ..."
2. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1837)
"But the latter, namely, the hylozoic, though truly acknowledging, on the contrary,
that life, cogitation and understanding are entities really distinct from ..."
3. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... to a fuller and more thorough confutation, both of the Cosmo-plastic and hylozoic
... that neither the Cosmo-plastic or Stoical, nor the hylozoic or ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"He states with great fulness and fairness the arguments which have been urged in
support both of the atomic and hylozoic atheism. ..."
5. The works of Ralph Cudworth by Ralph Cudworth (1829)
"That the grounds of the hylozoic Atheism could not be insisted on in the former
chapter, together with those of the Atomic, they being directly contrary ..."
6. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"The hylozoic Atheists themselves so sensible thereof, that there must be some
... This hylozoic atheism nothing but the crumbling of the Deity into matter. ..."
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