Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of the nature of government; ruling.
  • Chief; primary; primordial.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Chief; primary; primordial.

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  • adjective obsolete chief; primary; primordial

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek able to govern. See arch-.

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Examples

  • For they are really monarchs of their own people; that is, of their own Church (for the Church is the same thing with a Christian people); whereas the power of the Pope, though he were St. Peter, is neither monarchy, nor hath anything of archical nor cratical, but only of didactical; for God accepteth not a forced, but a willing obedience.

    Leviathan 2007

  • These dissimilarities undoubtedly led to a social stratification of chieftains and priests in an hier - archical, if not a caste, system, with varied supporting justifications such as hereditary innate differences or divine dispensation.

    EQUAL PROTECTION IN LAW MORRIS D. FORKOSCH 1968

  • The French Revolution was only the ter - minal focal point of a general movement which can be broadly called “nationalism” or “democracy,” implying a struggle against the existing traditional, and by now obsolete, forms of government and hier - archical social order.

    NATIONALISM HANS KOHN 1968

  • There was also God taking terrible notes - a kind of Squire-archical rent-collector, ever ready to record the tenants 'backsliding and to evict them if their dues weren't paid.

    Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959

  • Till then, there had been but little political difference between the candidate supported by Lord Lansmere's interest and the opposing parties; for country gentlemen, in those days, were pretty much of the same way of thinking, and the question had been really local, -- namely, whether the Lansmere interest should or should not prevail over that of the two squire-archical families who had alone, hitherto, ventured to oppose it.

    My Novel — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Till then, there had been but little political difference between the candidate supported by Lord Lansmere's interest and the opposing parties; for country gentlemen, in those days, were pretty much of the same way of thinking, and the question had been really local, -- namely, whether the Lansmere interest should or should not prevail over that of the two squire-archical families who had alone, hitherto, ventured to oppose it.

    My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • His poetical imagination sometimes fixed and animated these metaphysical abstractions; the three archical on original principles were represented in the Platonic system as three Gods, united with each other by a mysterious and ineffable generation; and the Logos was particularly considered under the more accessible character of the

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765

  • His poetical imagination sometimes fixed and animated these metaphysical abstractions; the three archical on original principles were represented in the Platonic system as three Gods, united with each other by a mysterious and ineffable generation; and the Logos was particularly considered under the more accessible character of the Son of an Eternal

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765

  • For they are really monarchs of their own people; that is, of their own Church (for the Church is the same thing with a Christian people); whereas the power of the Pope, though he were St. Peter, is neither monarchy, nor hath anything of archical nor cratical, but only of didactical; for God accepteth not a forced, but a willing obedience.

    Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill 1651

  • Typically, the course of the study, the appropriate hier - when relying on the assumption of steady archical model for nonlinear effects over time state, more than 20% of observed concentra - can translate the data into accurate estimates. tions have to be queried.

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