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The art or skill of an archer.

Archers, or bowmen, collectively. Let all our archery fall off In wings of shot a-both sides of the van. Webster (1607).

pl. of Arch, n. Court of arches, or Arches Court (Eng. Law), the court of appeal of the Archbishop of Canterbury, whereof the judge, who sits as deputy to the archbishop, is called the Dean of the Arches, because he anciently held his court in the church of St. Mary-le-Bow (de arcubus). It is now held in Westminster. M…

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

With reference to the archetype; originally. "Parts archetypally distinct." Dana.

l of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed. The House of Commons, the archetype of all the representative assemblies which now meet. Macaulay. Types and shadows of that glorious archetype that was to come into the world. South.

Relating to an archetype; archetypal.

The vital principle or force which (according to the Paracelsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the anima mundi or plastic power of the old philosophers. [Obs.] Johnson.

A prefix signifying chief, arch; as, architect, archiepiscopal. In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as, archipterygium, the primitive fin or wing.

A group of Annelida remarkable for having no external segments or distinct ventral nerve ganglions.

Chief physician; -- a term applied, on the continent of Europe, to the first or body physician of princes and to the first physician of some cities. P. Cyc.

A metal-hubbed wheel of great strength and elasticity, esp. adapted for artillery carriages and motor cars.

A hollow blastula, supposed to be the primitive form; a c

Chief; primary; primordial. [Obs.] Cudworth.

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

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.

The higher order of clergy in Russia, including metropolitans, archbishops, and bishops. Pinkerton.