Search the Dictionary

A fossil bird, of the Jurassic period, remarkable for having a long tapering tail of many vertebræ with feathers along each side, and jaws armed with teeth, with other reptilian characteristics.

Applied to a gastrula when the blastorope does not entirely up.

Like or belonging to the earliest forms of animal life.

Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated; obsolescent.

Archaic. [R.] -- Ar*cha"ic*al*ly, adv.

Antiquity of style or use; obsoleteness. A select vocabulary corresponding (in point of archaism and remoteness from ordinary use) to our Scriptural vocabulary. De Quincey.

One who uses archaisms.

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

To make appear archaic or antique. Mahaffy.

A chief angel; one high in the celestial hierarchy. Milton.

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

A chief bishop; a church dignitary of the first class (often called a metropolitan or primate) who superintends the conduct of the suffragan bishops in his province, and also exercises episcopal authority in his own diocese.

The jurisdiction or office of an archbishop; the see or province over which archbishop exercises archiepiscopal authority.

A chief butler; -- an officer of the German empire.

A chief chamberlain; -- an officer of the old German empire, whose office was similar to that of the great chamberlain in England.

A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.

Of supreme chemical powers. [R.] "The archchemic sun." Milton.

In England, an ecclesiastical dignitary, next in rank below a bishop, whom he assists, and by whom he is appointed, though with independent authority. Blackstone.

The district, office, or residence of an archdeacon. See Benefice. Every diocese is divided into archdeaconries. Blackstone.

The office of an archdeacon.