ectypal

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛkˈtaɪpəl/

Adjective

ectypal

1. Copied, as contrasted with an archetypal original.
2. (philosophy) Corresponding to external reality.
   • 1713, George Berkeley, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous:

     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.