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Pertaining to Aram, or to the territory, inhabitants, language, or literature of Syria and Mesopotamia; Aramæan; -- specifically applied to the northern branch of the Semitic family of languages, including Syriac and Chaldee. -- n.

Of or pertaining to the Araneina or spiders. -- n.

Of or pertaining to trees; arboreal.

Of or pertaining to a tree, or to trees; of nature of trees. Cowley.

Pertaining to, or growing on, trees; as, arboreous moss. Quincy.

Pertaining to arboriculture. Loudon.

Of or pertaining to a dwarf tree; shrublike. Da Costa.

Of or pertaining to Arcadia; pastoral; ideally rural; as, Arcadian simplicity or scenery.

Ancient; pertaining to the earliest period in geological history.

Of or pertaining to the earliest Stone age; -- applied to a prehistoric period preceding the Paleolithic age.

Like, or imitative of, anything archaic; pertaining to an archaism.

Of or pertaining to archangels; of the nature of, or resembling, an archangel. Milton.

Of or pertaining to an archduke or archduchy.

Of or pertaining to an archetype; consisting a model (real or ideal) or pattern; original. "One archetypal mind." Gudworth.

Of or pertaining to an archdeacon. This offense is liable to be censured in an archidiaconal visitation. Johnson.

Of or pertaining to an archbishop; as, Canterbury is an archiepiscopal see.

Of or pertaining to the satiric Greek poet Archilochus; as, Archilochian meter.

Of or pertaining to Archimedes, a celebrated Greek philosopher; constructed on the principle of Archimedes' screw; as, Archimedean drill, propeller, etc. Archimedean screw, or Archimedes' screw, an instrument, said to have been invented by Archimedes, for raising water, formed by winding a flexible tube round a cylinde…

Of or pertaining to an archipelago.

Pertaining to a master builder, or to architecture; evincing skill in designing or construction; constructive. "Architectonic wisdom." Boyle. These architectonic functions which we had hitherto thought belonged. J. C. Shairp.