hylicadj.
/ˈhʌɪlɪk/, U.S. /ˈhaɪlɪk/ Pertaining to matter, material. (In Gnostic theology opposed to psychic and pneumatic.)
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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [adjective]
bodyc1175
materialc1390
corporal?1520
physical1547
substantialc1550
materiate1588
elementated1605
corporeala1620
corpulenta1620
crass1649
materiable1652
corporeous1669
bodysome1674
hylical1708
hylic1853
1853 W. 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.
1860 J. 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.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [adjective]
bodyc1175
materialc1390
corporal?1520
physical1547
substantialc1550
materiate1588
elementated1605
corporeala1620
corpulenta1620
crass1649
materiable1652
corporeous1669
bodysome1674
hylical1708
hylic1853
1708 H. Dodwell Nat. Mortality Humane Souls 6 He supposes them..to be Hylical and Choical, not Cœlestial.
ˈhylicism n. materialism.
ˈhylicist n. a materialist.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > [noun] > person
man of the world1535
worldling1549
worlding1567
earthling1600
earthman1748
this-worldian1830
secularist1851
hylicist1880
1880 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Suppl. Hylicist.
1893 Athenæum 12 Aug. 220/3 The ‘Ionian hylicists’, Descartes, Kant, and Mr. Spencer, all resemble one another in this respect.
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