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.

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Adj.

Original; constituting a model or pattern.

See also: archétypal

archetypal ‎(comparative more archetypal, superlative most archetypal)

Of or pertaining to an archetype.
- 2014 April 12, Michael Inwood, “Martin Heidegger: the philosopher who fell for Hitler [print version: Hitler's philosopher]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), London, page R11:
  In 1928 [Martin] Heidegger succeeded [Edmund] Husserl to take a chair at Freiburg and in his inaugural lecture made a pronouncement that earned him a reputation as an archetypal metaphysician with his claim that our awareness of people as a whole depends on our experience of dread in the face of nothingness.

Of or pertaining to an archetype