1891 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 12 30 The increase of the Phylae involved changes in the institutions based upon the phylic system.

1908 J. L. Myres in R. R. Marett Anthropol. & Classics 142 The solidarity of the Greek phylic institutions.

1949 T. Burrow Neurosis of Man vii. 169 As an outgrowth of this phylic principle of integration, the individual remains always an integral element within the organism of man as a unit.

1952 W. J. H. Sprott Social Psychol. 246 The fault lies mainly in our individualism, or, rather, in our isolationism. We have over-developed the ‘private’ and lost touch with the ‘phylic’.

1953 T. Burrow Sci. & Man's Behavior vi. 74 The term ‘species’..has no adjectival form. In order to fill this breach, I adopted ‘phylic’, from phylum, which in its original Greek had the meaning of ‘tribe’.

1960 C. I. Glicksberg Lit. & Relig. iii. 24 What makes life in the present decades nightmarishly difficult is precisely this perception that the sense of historical as well as phylic unity has been annulled.

1967 Language 43 577 The now abandoned Hokan-Siouan..was recognized from the first as a device for classifying language families and language isolates which were leftovers (rather than as a serious phylic hypothesis).

2004 R. Blench in J. Bintliff Compan. Archaeol. iv. 61/1 If we can place ante quem dates on particular [language] families or subgroups then at least proposals for dates of phylic expansion can derive from overall estimates of internal diversity.