The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hylic \Hyl"ic\, a. Of or pertaining to matter; material; corporeal; as, hylic influences.
Wiktionary
a. Having to do with or of the nature of matter or material. n. (context gnosticism English) The basest type of man in the gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping; a person focused on neither intellectual (psychic) nor spiritual (pneumatic) reality.
Usage examples of "hylic".
If so, I despair of your making your meaning intelligible to a poor fellow wallowing, like me, in the Hylic Borboros--or whatever else you may choose to call the unfortunate fact of being flesh and blood.
Gnosis and the divine life, while the others, likewise in virtue of their constitution, as hylic perish.
The Ungodlike or Hylic Nature, which resists all amelioration, and whose tendency is only to destroy--the nature of blind lust and passion.
But for other fathers of the church, the Barbelites were latter-day Gnostics, therefore dualists, who worshiped the Great Mother Barbelo, and their initiates in turn called the Borborites Hylics, or Children of Matter, as distinct from the Psychics, who were already a step up, and the Pneumatics, who were the truly elect, the Rotary Club of the whole business.