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choical en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• kō′-ĭ-kəl (General-American)
• /ˈkəʊɪkəl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈkoʊɪkəl/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χοϊκός (khoïkós, “earthy, earthen”) + -al, from χοῦς (khoûs, “dust, dirt”).

Meanings

1. (uncommon) Synonym of physical, material, or base.
   • 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. 1914, Rufus Matthew Jones, Spiritual Reformers in the 16th and 17th Centuries, page xiii:
   • So it is manifeſt that the Heretical Valentinians underſtood their Maſter Plato, when they made their Choical Men to periſh immediately upon this Diſſolution from the Body. Theſe Choical Men were ſuppoſed deſtitute even of the Pnoe. They are the ſame with thoſe which were call'd Hylical. 1708, Henry Dodwell Sr, The Natural Mortality of Humane Souls..., page 50:

Forms

Synonyms

physical · or base · material