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hylic, a.|ˈhaɪlɪk| [ad. med.L. hȳlic-us (Du Cange), a. Gr. ὑλικ-ός material, f. ὕλη hyle.] Pertaining to matter, material. (In Gnostic theology opposed to psychic and pneumatic.)
1853W. E. Tayler Hippolytus ii. ii. 86 They regarded Cain as the representative of the Hylic, Abel of the Psychical and Seth of the Pneumatic principle. 1860J. Gardner Faiths World II. 97/1 The Gnostic notion that a class of men..suffered themselves to be so captivated by the inferior world as to live only a hylic, or material life. So † ˈhylical a. = hylic; ˈhylicism, materialism; ˈhylicist, a materialist.
1708H. Dodwell Nat. Mort. Hum. Souls 6 He supposes them..to be Hylical and Choical, not Cœlestial. 1880Webster Supp., Hylicist. 1893Athenæum 12 Aug. 220/3 The ‘Ionian hylicists’, Descartes, Kant, and Mr. Spencer, all resemble one another in this respect. |