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Webster 1913 Edition


Archetypal

Ar′che-tyˊpal

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Adj.
Of or pertaining to an archetype; consisting a model (real or ideal) or pattern; original.
“One archetypal mind.”
Gudworth.
☞ Among Platonists, the archetypal world is the world as it existed as an idea of God before the creation.

Webster 1828 Edition


Archetypal

'ARCHETYPAL

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Adj.
Original; constituting a model or pattern.