† ˈarchical, a. Obs.
[f. Gr. ἀρχικός, f. ἀρχή beginning, rule + -al1.]
1. Of the nature of rule; governmental.
| 1651 Hobbes Leviath. (1839) 569 Nor hath [the power of the Pope] anything of archical, nor cratical, but only of didactical. 1692 H. Hallywell Mor. Virtue 48 (T.) That principality and archical rule..over all our corporeal passions. |
2. Of the nature of a first principle; primordial.
| 1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. 73 They are no Archical things..they have not the Nature of a Principle in them. |