ectypal

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/ɛkˈtaɪpəl/

adjective

Copied, as contrasted with an archetypal original.

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Meanings

adjective
  1. Copied, as contrasted with an archetypal original.
  2. human sciencesCorresponding 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.

    1713, George Berkeley, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous

Origin

From ectype + -al.

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ectypal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ectypal

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Chicago

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