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Having to do with, or of the nature of, matter. quotations examples
1828, “a part of mankind were by original constitution altogether hylic or material”, in The New Jerusalem magazine and theological inspector, page 155
three orders of beings,—the spiritual, physical and hylic natures.
1840, Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger, translated by Edward Cox, A History of the Church Volume 1, page 133
plural hylics
(Gnosticism) The basest type of man in the gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping; a person focused on neither intellectual (psychic) nor spiritual (pneumatic) reality. examples