ECTYPAL

Adjective

ectypal

Copied, as contrasted with an archetypal original.

(philosophy) Corresponding to external reality.

What would you have! do I not acknowledge a twofold state of things, the one ectypal or natural, the other archetypal and eternal? The former was created in time; the latter existed from everlasting in the mind of God.

Source: Wiktionary


Ec"ty*pal, a. Etym: [L. ectypus worked in high relief, Gr. Type.]

Definition: Copied, reproduced as a molding or cast, in contradistinction from the original model.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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