hylic
/ˈhaɪlɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "...a part of mankind were by original constitution altogether hylic or material..."
- "The Enthymesis or Achamoth, which was born of the Sophia, the last of the æones, and had fallen from the Pleroma, animated all matter, and produced three orders of beings,—the spiritual, the physical [sic, intending psychical], and hylic natures. The natural Demiurgos formed, in imperfect representations of the Pleroma, a new world, of which he is the ruler, while Satan, the king of the hylic natures, governs here upon earth."
- "There was in man... a visible body..believed to be composed, according to many of the Gnostics, of a subtle element... which they named the hylic body, and a sheath of gross earthly matter which they called the choical body."
Etymology
From Medieval Latin hylicus, from Ancient Greek ὑλικός (hulikós, “wooden, material”), from ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē, “wood, matter”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic, forming adjectives”). As a noun, a clipped calque of homo hylicus (“hylic man”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: hylicus, ὑλικός
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈhaɪlɪk/