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The quality of being arbitrary; despoticalness; tyranny. Bp. Hall.

Arbitrary; despotic. [Obs.] -- Ar`bi*tra"*ri*ous*ly, adv. [Obs.]

Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any fixed rules; as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment. It was wholly arbitrary in them to do so. Jer. Taylor. Rank pretends to fix the value of every one, and is the most arbitrary of all things. Landor.

To hear and decide, as arbitrators; as, to choose to arbitrate a disputed case.

The hearing and determination of a cause between parties in controversy, by a person or persons chosen by the parties.

persons, chosen by parties who have a controversy, to determine their differences. See Arbitration.

A female who arbitrates or judges.

A female arbiter; an arbitratrix. Milton.

The treelike disposition of the gray and white nerve tissues in the cerebellum, as seen in a vertical section.

taining to the earliest Stone age; -- applied to a prehistoric period preceding the Paleolithic age.

The station or dignity of an archbishop; archiepiscopacy. Fuller.

A chief of a monastery, corresponding to abbot in the Roman Catholic church.

A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed.

Used in building; proper for building. Derham.

The science of architecture.

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.

The science of architecture.

An architect. [Obs.] North.

A female architect.

Of or pertaining to the art of building; conformed to the rules of architecture. -- Ar`chi*tec"tur*al*ly, adv.