energic

comparative more energic · superlative most energic · alternative energical

1. obsoletePotent, effective.First known use 17th–19th c.
2. obsoleterhetoricHaving great power of expression; forceful.First known use 17th–19th c.
3. Carried out with force; vigorous, energetic; full of energy.First known use 18th c.
4. obsoleteIn a state of action; producing effects; active, operational.First known use 18th–19th c.

   the energic faculty that we call will

5. Pertaining to a spiritual or psychic energy attributed to all living things, especially in certain Eastern religions and New Age philosophy.First known use 19th c.

   Thus our life substance, as an energic [translating energetischer] process, is entirely Sun.

   1919, Beatrice M. Hinkle, translating C. G. Jung, The Psychology of the Unconscious