archetype, tar chi type

[In Fr. archetype; Sp. arquetipo Port. archetypo; Ital. archetipo; Lat. archetypum; Gr. άρχετύπον (archetupon), s., the neut. of ἀρχέτυπος ( archetupos ) = stamped as a model: ἀρχή ( arc he ) beginning, and τύπος ( tupos ) = a blow, anything struck, a model, type.] 1. Platonic Philosophy, and generally: The primitive type, model, or pattern on which anything is formed. "Then it was that the House of Commons, the archetype of all the representative a emblies which now meet, either in the Old or in the New World, held its first sittings."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng . , chap. i. this great architype "-Bacon: Physiol. ". Rem . 2. Minting: The standard weight by which the others are adjusted. 3. Comp. Anatomy. The archetype skeleton: Profe or Owen's name for an ideal skeleton of which those actually existing in the several cla es of vertebrated animals are held to be modifications. ar-che-typ-i-cal, a. [Eng. archetype; -ical.] The same as ARCHETYPAL. ( War burton.) ar-che-ŭs, S. [From Gr. ἀρχή ( arc he ) = beginning, first principle, element.] A term applied by Basil Valentine, Para cels us, and Van Helmont to denote the regulative and conservative principle of the animal world -what is now called vital force . *ar'che-wyves, s . pl . [Eng. arc he = Gr. άρχι ( arch i ) = chief, and O. Eng. wyves = wives.] Wives who aspire to govern their husbands. ( Chaucer .) arch-hî-er-eỹ,