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of an entablature, or that part which rests immediately on the column, esp. in classical architecture. See Column.

Furnished with an architrave. Cowper.

Pertaining to, or contained in, archives or records. Tooke.

cuments are kept. Our words . . . . become records in God's court, and are laid up in his archives as witnesses. Gov. of Tongue.

A keeper of archives or records. [R.]

The architectural member surrounding the curved opening of an arch, corresponding to the architrave in the case of a square opening.

A large theorbo, or double-necked lute, formerly in use, having the bass strings doubled with an octave, and the higher strings with a unison.

In an arch manner; with attractive slyness or roguishness; slyly; waggishly. Archly the maiden smiled. Longfellow.

The grand marshal of the old German empire, a dignity that to the Elector of Saxony.

The quality of being arch; cleverness; sly humor free from malice; waggishness. Goldsmith.

One of the chief magistrates in ancient Athens, especially, by preëminence, the first of the nine chief magistrates. -- Ar*chon"tic, a.

The office of an archon. Mitford.

An archon's term of office. Gibbon.

The group including man alone.

The substance from which attraction spheres develop in mitotic cell division, and of which they consist.

An archbishop or other chief prelate.

Same as Archpriest.

The absolute dominion of presbytery. Milton.

A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean.

The chief primate. Milton.