choical
adjUS /ˈkoʊɪkəl/ · UK /ˈkəʊɪkəl/
Etymology From Ancient Greek χοϊκός (khoïkós, “earthy, earthen”) + -al, from χοῦς (khoûs, “dust, dirt”).
- 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:
- 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: