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Definition of Hyloist
1. n. Same as Hylotheist.
Definition of Hyloist
1. Noun. (archaic) (alternative form of hylotheist) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hyloist
1. hylicist [n -S] - See also: hylicist
Medical Definition of Hyloist
1. Same as Hylotheist. Origin: Gr. Wood, matter. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyloist
Literary usage of Hyloist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1836)
"It may be adopted, also, with sufficient consistency by the hyloist, who believes
in the eternity of matter, and all its properties, as independent on Deity ..."
2. Natural Theology: Or Essays on the Existence of Deity and of Providence, on by Alexander Crombie (1829)
"... that what is extended, is yet indivisible,—if such difficulties, not to say,
seeming contradictions, embarrass the hypothesis of the hyloist, ..."
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