hylic

== English == === 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”). === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhaɪlɪk/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhʌɪlɪk/ Rhymes: -aɪlɪk === Adjective === hylic (not comparable) (chiefly Gnosticism) Synonym of physical, material, or base. [1820s] 1914, Rufus Matthew Jones, Spiritual Reformers in the 16th and 17th Centuries, p. xiii: 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. ==== Coordinate terms ==== psychic, pneumatic ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== See also Category:English terms prefixed with hylo- === Noun === hylic (plural hylics) (Gnosticism) A base man, a person of merely physical concerns without mindfulness of either intellectual or spiritual matters. ==== Coordinate terms ==== psychic, pneumatic ==== Translations ==== === References === “hylic, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.