Relating to the downward or inward aspects of physical nature; used rarely in older philosophical or scientific texts.
From Greek 'cata-' (down, inward) + 'physika' (physical, natural). An archaic philosophical term combining Greek roots.
This word is delightfully obscure—it shows how philosophers once tried to describe physical phenomena by direction before modern science gave us better vocabulary!
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