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In a starched or starch manner.

Of or pertaining to starched or starch; stiffness of manner; preciseness.

The cuckoopint, the tubers of which yield a fine quality of starch.

Consisting of starch; resembling starch; stiff; precise.

Astrology. [R.] Tennyson.

Approximately arctic; belonging to a region just without the arctic circle.

Having a figure resembling that of a bow; somewhat curved or arched.

Moderately narcotic.

The master of a feast.

Joint rule or sovereignity. [R.] Stackhouse.

The junction of bones by intervening muscles.

An Athenian military officer commanding a certain division of an army. Milford.

A Roman governor of the fourth part of a province; hence, any subordinate or dependent prince; also, a petty king or sovereign.

A tetrarchy.

Of or pertaining to a tetrarch or tetrarchy. Bolingbroke.

The district under a Roman tetrarch; the office or jurisdiction of a tetrarch; a tetrarchate.

Divinely sovereign or supreme. [R.] He [Jesus] is the thearchic Intelligence. Milman.

Government by God; divine sovereignty; theocracy.

The ruler or principal man in a place or country; the governor of a toparchy. The prince and toparch of that country. Fuller.

A small state, consisting of a few cities or towns; a petty country governed by a toparch; as, Judea was formerly divided into ten toparchies. Fuller.