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Webster 1913 Edition

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.

Adj.

Original; constituting a model or pattern.

See also: archetypal

archétypal m ‎(feminine singular archétypale, masculine plural archétypaux, feminine plural archétypales)