English
hylical
From hyle + -ical, originally translating Latin hylicus in notes on Irenaeus's Against Heretics after the manner of earlier psychical and pneumatical, from Ancient Greek ὑλικός (hulikós, “wooden, material”), from ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē, “wood, matter”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic, forming adjectives”).
Formed from hyle + -ical
Ancient Greek ὕλη ‘wood, matter’
Medieval Latin hyle ‘matter, the fundamental matter of all things,…’
English hyle
The story
From hyle + -ical, originally translating Latin hylicus in notes on Irenaeus's Against Heretics after the manner of earlier psychical and pneumatical, from Ancient Greek ὑλικός (hulikós, “wooden, material”), from ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē, “wood, matter”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic, forming adjectives”).
Today it means
adj Synonym of physical or material.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
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