Dictionary: ARCH'LIKE – ARCH'-STONE

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ARCH'LIKE, a.

Built like an arch. – Young.

ARCH'LUTE, or ARCH'I-LUTE, n. [It. arcileuto.]

A large lute, a theorbo, the base-strings of which are doubled with an octave, and the higher strings with a unison. – Busby.

ARCH'LY, adv.

Shrewdly; wittily; jestingly.

ARCH-MA-GIC'IAN, n.

The chief magician. – Spenser.

ARCH-MAR'SHAL, n.

The grand marshal of the German empire; a dignity belonging to the elector of Saxony.

ARCH'NESS, n.

Cunning; shrewdness; waggishness.

ARCH'ON, n. [Gr. αρχων, a prince.]

The archons in Greece were chief magistrates chosen, after the death of Codrus, from the most illustrious families, to superintend civil and religious concerns. They were nine in number; the first was properly the archon; the second was called king; the third, polemarch, or general of the forces. The other six were called thesmothetæ, or legislators. – Encyc.

ARCH'ON-SHIP, n.

The office of an archon; or the term of his office. Mitford.

ARCH-ON'TICS, n.

In Church history, a branch of the Valentinians, who held that the world was not created by God, but by angels, archontes.

ARCH-PAST'OR, n.

Chief pastor, the shepherd and bishop of our souls. – Barrow.

ARCH-PHI-LOS'O-PHER, n.

A chief philosopher. – Hooker.

ARCH-PIL'LAR, n.

The main pillar. – Harmar.

ARCH-PO'ET, n.

The principal poet.

ARCH-POL-I-TI'CIAN, n. [See Policy.]

An eminent or distinguished politician. – Bacon.

ARCH-PON'TIF, n. [See Pontif.]

A supreme pontif or priest. – Burke.

ARCH-PRE'LATE, n. [See Prelate.]

The chief prelate.

ARCH-PRES'BY-TER, n. [See Presbyter.]

A chief presbyter or priest. – Encyc.

ARCH-PRES'BY-TER-Y, n.

The absolute dominion of presbytery, or the chief presbytery. – Milton.

ARCH-PRIEST', n. [See Priest.]

A chief priest. – Encyc.

ARCH-PRI'MATE, n.

The chief primate; an archbishop. – Milton.

ARCH-PROPH'ET, n.

Chief prophet. – Warton.

ARCH-PROT'ES-TANT, n.

A principal or distinguished protestant.

ARCH-PUB'LIC-AN, n.

The distinguished publican. – Hall.

ARCH-REB'EL, n.

The chief rebel. – Milton.

ARCH'-STONE, n.

The stone that binds an arch.