archival

[Lat. pl. archiva; Eng. suffix -al.] Pertaining to archives. ( Tooke.) ar-chive (pl. ar'-chīves, * ar-chi-va), s. [In Sw. arkiv ; Dan. archivet : Dut. arch i even; Ger. archiv ; Fr. archives (pl.); Ital. archivi (pl.), archivio ; Lat. archiva , pl. of archivum . There is also a Latin form archium ; Gr. ἀρχεῖον (archei on) = the town-house, the official residence of the first magistrate.] 1. Plur.: The place in which important historical records are kept. "Though we think our words vanish with the breath that utters them, yet they become records in God's court, and are laid up in his archives as witne es either for or against us."-Government of the Tongue. IMG:content-0719.jpg:[graphic][graphic][merged small][subsumed][merged small][graphic][graphic][graphic][subsumed] ABORIGINAL AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE. 1. Teocalli at Papantia, Vera Cruz. 2. Corner of a Teocal IMG:content-0720.jpg:[graphic][subsumed][graphic][graphic][merged small][graphic][merged small][merged small] 2. (a) Pl .: The records themselves. These generally consist of charters and other documents bearing on the rights, the history, ., of a nation or of a smaller community or house. "The Christians were able to make good what they a erted by appealing to those records rds kept in the Roman archiva ."-H. More: On Godline , b. 7, c. 12, § 2. (Trench.) "I shall now only look a little into the Mosaic archives, to observe what they furnish us with upon this subject."- Woodward . † (b) Sing .: One such record. "Vespas i an, according to Suet on i us, restored this national archive , by procuring copies from ail quarters." -Lewis: Early Rom . Hist ., ch. v., § 9.