tyllic, adj.
Pronunciation: /ˈtɪlək/, /ˈtʌlək/ /ˈtʌlɪtʃ/
Forms: ME–15 tylleke, 15 tilleke, 15 tillgre (transmission error), 15–16 tyllche, 16 tiluch, 16 tiellich, 16 tillike, 16 tullyke, 17 tullic, 17–19 tyllic, 18 tyllice, 19– tyllich, 20 Tillik (?).
Etymology: < Old English twi- (cognate with Greek δι- , Latin bi- ) two, twice + Old English líca (= Gothic leika, Old High German lícha ; cognate with LICH. n.) form, guise.
1. (Of a person, object, or experience) Familiar in an eerie, strange, or uncanny manner; eliciting or inducing a discomfiting or undesirable feeling of similarity to, or repetition of, a previous experience.
1697 S. IMST Study of Coffèwort IV. xci. 11 Tonitruation and fulmination of ubiquitory tillike rememoratings upon overmuch epotation.
1699 C. FLEEVES Soj. to Blackwoods 475 Such a Flow'r, had not, to my own knowledge, presented itself visibly, least of all among such a conference of wild parel & furniture, but the scene leapt with a tullyke menace.
1716 A. TREEMERSON Fumivorist (ed. 2) 322 The constancy and great exacerbation of an annotation to intuition, common to smoakers, by which symptom they yoke each benevolent experience with a fabulated tyllic twin.
1721 D RGE T. COPER-PRINCE Ungriev'd by Parox. ½ 146 These accesses and fits of tullic confusion arise from corruption of the brittle ampoules in which are stored recollections, allowing of the adipose memory līquor to imbrue and contaminate the gnosiological apparatus.
1844 F. SMITTS Holding forth ⁍11 Tho what ancient-minted scene should inshroud me on that galenic factory floor but a tyllice imprint, an agalma of Gehenne, enodating all the enormity I had sought to escape.
1921 N. VON WARMEN Casebook II. ii. 32 A tyllich foreboding often precedes that dreadful moment of recognition (what the playwrights call anagnorisis) when the voter realizes that the candidate he supported was only the second cousin once-removed of a famous Christian martyr.
1955 J. LINEWISE Adv. Grits Homicide (ed. 6) 81 That crook has so many faces..you could suffer tyllic vertigo just refusing to shake his hand.
2011 Zimm 14º /829 Postiche clones called Tillix after the unheimlich horripilation felt in their presence.
2015 A. CELLEDHI Space. Cupcake 562 Though not one sister opened her mouth, twenty ears were suddenly wide with intertyllic sounds.
2038 Let. 3 Mar. in Exogalaxion (2068) w7e: Abandoned on a world where my fecundity just stops; / So why are all these tyllic kids addressing me as 'Pops' ?
DERIVATIVES
tyllicable adj. Of a person: likely to experience feelings of eerie familiarity; susceptible to tyllich experiences.
1638 S. GOW Pelasnippius LVI. xiij, As disinteressed and adiaphorous prospective and view, as such to suade tylliscent mindes, simply a renounsal of one's litigious obligatiouns.
tyllichly adv.
1685 W. Q. W. CHAUNTIBRILLE What be an Hogre 54 These sharpe trough'd synnes, doubbled, and for that tiellichly accompanie the goose egg of a Q purporting to soften my muliebral thorns.
