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Archetype
n.
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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, the vertebrate archetype.
Archetypical
a.
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Relating to an archetype; archetypal.
Archeus
n.
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The vital principle or force which (according to the Paracelsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the anima mundi or plastic power of the old philosophers.
Archi-
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A prefix signifying chief, arch; as, architect, archiepiscopal. In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as, archipterygium, the primitive fin or wing.
Archiannelida
n. pl.
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A group of Annelida remarkable for having no external segments or distinct ventral nerve ganglions.
Archiater
n.
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Chief physician; -- a term applied, on the continent of Europe, to the first or body physician of princes and to the first physician of some cities.
Archiblastula
n.
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A hollow blastula, supposed to be the primitive form; a c/loblastula.
Archical
pref.
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Chief; primary; primordial.
Archidiaconal
a.
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Of or pertaining to an archdeacon.
Archiepiscopacy
n.
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That form of episcopacy in which the chief power is in the hands of archbishops.
Archiepiscopacy
n.
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The state or dignity of an archbishop.
Archiepiscopal
a.
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Of or pertaining to an archbishop; as, Canterbury is an archiepiscopal see.
Archiepiscopality
n.
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The station or dignity of an archbishop; archiepiscopacy.
Archiepiscopate
n.
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The office of an archbishop; an archbishopric.
Archierey
n.
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The higher order of clergy in Russia, including metropolitans, archbishops, and bishops.
Archil
n.
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A violet dye obtained from several species of lichen (Roccella tinctoria, etc.), which grow on maritime rocks in the Canary and Cape Verd Islands, etc.
Archil
n.
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The plant from which the dye is obtained.
Archilochian
a.
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Of or pertaining to the satiric Greek poet Archilochus; as, Archilochian meter.
Archimage
n.
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Alt. of Archimagus
Archimagus
n.
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The high priest of the Persian Magi, or worshipers of fire.
Archimagus
n.
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A great magician, wizard, or enchanter.
Archimandrite
n.
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A chief of a monastery, corresponding to abbot in the Roman Catholic church.
Archimandrite
n.
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A superintendent of several monasteries, corresponding to superior abbot, or father provincial, in the Roman Catholic church.
Archimedean
a.
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Of or pertaining to Archimedes, a celebrated Greek philosopher; constructed on the principle of Archimedes' screw; as, Archimedean drill, propeller, etc.
Arching
n.
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Hogging; -- opposed to sagging.
Archipelagic
a.
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Of or pertaining to an archipelago.
-goes
pl.
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of Archipelago
-gos
pl.
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of Archipelago
Archipelago
n.
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The Grecian Archipelago, or Aegean Sea, separating Greece from Asia Minor. It is studded with a vast number of small islands.
Archipelago
n.
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Hence: Any sea or broad sheet of water interspersed with many islands or with a group of islands.