Standard Lemma guide
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adj
Synonym of physical, material, or base.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: Gnosticism, lifestyle, religion
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Synonyms: physical, material, or base
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A base man, a person of merely physical concerns without mindfulness of either intellectual or spiritual matters.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: Gnosticism, lifestyle, religion
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
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”).
Across languages
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