Crossword-Solution: PROTYLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Protyle | n. | The hypothetical homogeneous cosmic material of the original universe, supposed to have been differentiated into what are recognized as distinct chemical elements. |
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| PROTYLE | anagram | REPLYTO |
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| hypothetical primitive substance | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Sentences with PROTYLE (5)
Prescott, then, believes that the elements are merely progressive variations of an original substance or base called 'protyle,' from which everything is derived.
The primordial substance--corresponding to the "protyle" of our Monists--is composed of Five Elements, which are mystically identified with Five Buddhas, all of whom are really but different modes of the One.
And that powder is the base of all things; it is the mother of all the elements; it is, in short, the substance whose existence has been recently surmised by a leading chemist, and which has been christened protyle by him.
Crookes' researches have led the more advanced chemists to regard the atoms as compound, as a more or less complex aggregation of protyle.
The atomic theory refers all bodies to one homogeneous basic substance, which has been termed protyle (proto-hyle), from which, by means of a process loosely defined as differentiation, all the elements are derived.