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Webster 1913 Edition
Ectypal
Ec′ty-pal
,Adj.
[L.
ectypus
worked in high relief, Gr. [GREEK]; out + [GREEK] stamp, figure. See Type
.] Copied, reproduced as a molding or cast, in contradistinction from the original model.
Webster 1828 Edition
Ectypal
EC'TYPAL
,Adj.
Definition 2024
ectypal
ectypal
English
Adjective
ectypal
- Copied, as contrasted with an archetypal original. Has a specialised sense when used by the philosopher George Berkeley.
- The Works of George Berkeley, edited by Luce & Jessop, Volume 2, p254
- 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.
- The Works of George Berkeley, edited by Luce & Jessop, Volume 2, p254