arc hippus

[Gr. ̓Αρχιππος ( Arc hippos ), a Greek proper name (Col. iv. 17; Philem. 2).] A fine butterfly, the Danaus arc hippus. It does not occur in Britain. ar-chi-tect, s . [In Dan. architect ; Sw. ark i tekt; Ger. architekt ; Fr. architecte ; Sp. arqui tec to Port. arch i tec to Ital. arch i tet to ; Lat. architect us, architect on; Gr. ἀρχιτέκτων ( arch i tekton ) = chief artificer, ( literally ) chief carpenter: ἀρχι ( arch i ) = chief, and τέκτων (tek ton ) a carpenter. The word carries us back to the period when edifices were constructed chiefly of wood.] 1. Lit. One who draws the plans designed to show the builders the exact dimensions, form, and arrangements of an edifice which, under his superintendence, they are engaged to erect. Among great architects may be enumerated M. Vitruvius Pollio, who seems to have lived in the time of August us; and in our own island, Inigo Jones, born about 1572, died 1652; and the very celebrated Sir Christopher Wren, who died, aged ninety-one, in 1723. He drew out the plan for the restoration of St. Paul's, and the rebuilding of many City churches destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. 2. Fig .: A contriver or designer of anything. Used- IMG:content-0715.jpg:[blocks in formation] (b) Of God, as the Designer of everything created. "This inconvenience the Divine Architect of the body obviated."-Ray: On the Creation. as by work Divine the sovereign Architect had framed." Milton: P. L., bk. v (c) Of any animal constructing a habitation for itself by instinct, but in a style suggesting the architecture of man.