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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.

To origination of living matter from non-living. See Abiogenesis. Bastian.

A small fish (Toxotes jaculator), of the East Indies; -- so called from its ejecting drops of water from its mouth at its prey. The name is also applied to Chætodon rostratus.

That form of episcopacy in which the chief power is in the hands of archbishops.

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

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

The office of an archbishop; an archbishopric.

A genus of gigantic cephalopods, allied to the squids, found esp. in the North Atlantic and about New Zealand.

A keeper of archives or records. [R.]

Arch-shaped.

A group of Arachnida. See Illust. in Appendix.

A crossbow. Fosbroke.

A crossbowman; one who used the arcubalist. Camden.

stem of electric night signals in which a series of double electric lamps (white and red) is arranged vertically on a mast, and operated from a keyboard below.

See Areopagite.

The doctrines of the Arians.

above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise; as, to arise from a kneeling posture; a cloud arose; the sun ariseth; he arose early in the morning.

of Arise, for ariseth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An awn. Gray.