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hylic

adj
/ˈhaɪlɪk/

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”).

  1. derived from ὑλικός
  2. borrowed from hylicus

Definitions

  1. Synonym of physical, material, or base.

    • ...a part of mankind were by original constitution altogether hylic or material...
    • 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.

  2. A base man, a person of merely physical concerns without mindfulness of either…

    A base man, a person of merely physical concerns without mindfulness of either intellectual or spiritual matters.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hylic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA