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[ARCHEWYVES.] arch-wise, adv. [Eng. arch; suffix -wise.] Shaped like an arch; in the form of an arch. "The Court of Arches, so called ad arcuata ecclesia , or from Bow Church, by reason of the steeple or clochier thereof, raised at the top with stone pillars, in fashion of a bow bent archwise ."- Ayliffe : Parergon ,