Hylic

Quick meaning: Hylic is an adjective meaning (Gnosticism) A base man, a person of merely physical concerns without mindfulness of either intellectual or spiritual matters.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (chiefly Gnosticism) Synonym of physical, material, or base.

Example Sentences

...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.

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.

Word Forms

• hylics

Synonyms for hylic

Depending on context, synonyms include material.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hydridic, hydric, material, halogenic, hylomorphic, hydrochloric.

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