Archetypal

created by Webster 1913
(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Tue Dec 21 1999 at 21:53:05

Ar"che*ty`pal (#), a.

Of or pertaining to an archetype; consisting a model (real or ideal) or pattern; original.

"One archetypal mind." Gudworth.

⇒ Among Platonists, the archetypal world is the world as it existed as an idea of God before the creation.

 

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