Part 608

<blockquote>Let all our <b>archery</b> fall off In wings of shot a-both sides of the van. <i>Webster (1607).</i></blockquote>

<h1>Arches</h1> <Xpage=78>

<hw>Arch"es</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <def>pl. of <er>Arch</er>, <tt>n.</tt></def>

<cs><mcol><col>Court of arches</col>, or <col>Arches Court</col></mcol> <fld>(Eng. Law)</fld>, <cd>the court of appeal of the Archbishop of Canterbury, whereof the judge, who sits as deputy to the archbishop, is called the Dean of the <i>Arches<i>, because he anciently held his court in the church of St. Mary-<i>le-Bow (de arcubus)</i>. It is now held in Westminster.</cd></cs>

<i>Mozley & W.</i>

<h1>Archetypal</h1> <Xpage=78>

<hw>Ar"che*ty`pal</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to an archetype; consisting a model (real or ideal) or pattern; original.</def> "One <i>archetypal</i> mind."

<i>Gudworth.</i>

<note>&hand; Among Platonists, the <i>archetypal world</i> is the world as it existed as an idea of God before the creation.</note>

<h1>Archetypally</h1> <Xpage=78>

<hw>Ar"che*ty`pal*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>With reference to the archetype; originally. "Parts <i>archetypally</i> distinct."</def>

<i>Dana.</i>

<h1>Archetype</h1> <Xpage=78>

<hw>Ar"che*type</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>archetypum</ets>, Gr. <?/, fr. <?/ stamped first and as model; <?/ <?/ + <?/ stamp, figure, pattern, <?/ to strike: cf. F. <ets>arch\'82type</ets>. See <er>Arch-</er>, <ets>pref</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed.</def>

<blockquote>The House of Commons, the <b>archetype</b> of all the representative assemblies which now meet. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Types and shadows of that glorious <b>archetype</b> that was to come into the world. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Coinage)</fld> <def>The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>The plan or fundamental structure on which a natural group of animals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been constructed; <as>as, the vertebrate <ex>archetype</ex></as>.</def>

<h1>Archetypical</h1> <Xpage=78>

<hw>Ar`che*typ"ic*al</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Relating to an archetype; archetypal.</def>

<h1>Archeus</h1> <Xpage=78>

<hw>Ar*che"us</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>arch<?/us</ets>, Gr. <?/ ancient, primeval, fr. <?/ beginning. See <er>Archi-</er>, <ets>pref</ets>.]</ety> <def>The vital principle or force which (according to the Paracelsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the <i>anima mundi</i> or plastic power of the old philosophers.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Johnson.</i>

<h1>Archi-</h1> <Xpage=78>

<hw>Ar"chi-</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>. <ety>[L., <ets>archi-</ets>, Gr. <?/, a prefix which is from the same root as <?/ to be first, to begin; <?/ the first place, beginning; <?/ chief. Cf. AS. <ets>arce-</ets>, <ets>erce-</ets>, OHG. <ets>erzi</ets>-.]</ety> <def>A prefix signifying <i>chief</i>, <i>arch</i>; <as>as, <ex>archi</ex>tect, <ex>archi</ex>episcopal</as>. In <i>Biol</i>. and <i>Anat</i>. it usually means <i>primitive</i>, <i>original</i>, <i>ancestral</i>; <as>as, <ex>archi</ex>pterygium, the primitive fin or wing</as>.</def>

<h1>Archiannelida</h1> <Xpage=78>

<hw>Ar`chi*an*nel"i*da</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[NL.; pref. <ets>archi-</ets> + <ets>annelida</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A group of Annelida remarkable for having no external segments or distinct ventral nerve ganglions.</def>

<h1>Archiater</h1> <Xpage=78>