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.

 

© Webster 1913.

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