Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Obsolete form of
arch . - noun See
arch . - noun Something, having some mode of real being, from the understanding of which facts of experience can be deduced.
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Examples
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Archaeology derives from the Greek word arche, which literally means the moment of arising.
"MAIN" via Steve in Google Reader Daniel Rourke 2010
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There are two good Bridges to the town, one was a rebuilding, pretty large with Severall arches Called Hewet bridge – its often out of repaire by reason of the force of ye water that Swells after great raines, yet I see they made works of wood on purpose to breake the violence of ye Streame and ye Middle arche is very Large and high.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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Rates can run from € 35 to € 60 a night B ä renstrasse 2; www.arche-stuttgart.de .
Stuttgart, Germany 2011
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Note 173: Aristotle places the sensus communis in the arche of the heart, while Leonardo locates it in the central chamber of the brain.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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While Aristotle and Alexander of Aphrodisias placed the soul in the arche of the heart, Hippocrates and Plato located the powers of perception and cognition in the brain.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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I myself imagine, have lost one of the few people in the world who knew a thing or two about character of the type Rudolf Hans Bartsch must have been a specimen/arche.
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Due to pollution, there have been increasing reports (in Israel, at least) of menarche (seriously? men-arche?) in girls as young a 7 or 8 years old, along with other signs of physical maturity.
CHANGING BIOLOGY: AGE AT FIRST MENSTRUATION » Sociological Images 2008
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He summed up the 2008 Presidential primaries as the search by the bases of the Democratic and Republican parties as the search for their arche-type, Robert Kennedy and Ronald Reagan respectively.
Jeffrey Buchanan: Agreeing with Bill Kristol on RFK's Legacy? 2008
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O gar arche men o me oide, teleute de kai ta metaxu ex ou me oide sumpeplektai, tis mechane ten toiauten omologian pote epistemen genesthai; Plato Republic.
Theaetetus 2007
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It reads, in Greek, En arche en ho logos -- "In the beginning was the Word."
May 18th, 2005 spidersweb 2005
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