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单词 archon
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archonn.1

Etymology: < Old French arçon, archon, diminutive of arc bow, arch; compare arson n.1 and archet n.
A fiddlebow; ? a plectrum.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > bow
fiddlestick14..
archon1480
stick?1570
bow1580
archet1640
arco1740
fiddle-bow1827
violin-bow1858
1480 W. Caxton tr. Ovid Metamorphoses x. iv He [Phebus] held his archon in hys ryght hande And hys Lyre in hys lyfte honde.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

archonn.2

/ˈɑːkən/
Etymology: < Greek ἄρχων ruler, magistrate, present participle of ἄρχειν to rule.
1. The chief magistrate, and, after the time of Solon, one of the nine chief magistrates of the Athenian republic.
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society > law > legislation > legislator > [noun] > in ancient Athens
nomothetes1600
thesmothete1603
archon1659
society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > [noun] > magistrates in ancient Greece
ephor1586
thesmothete1603
archon1659
1659 J. Pearson Expos. Apostles Creed ii. 141 Their annuall Archon [ἐπώνυμος], whose name they used in their distinction of years.
1755 Philos. Trans. 1754 (Royal Soc.) 48 473 Solon..must have been about 52 the year that he was archon.
1874 J. P. Mahaffy Social Life Greece xii. 361 The chief archon had charge of heiresses and orphans. The king archon tried cases of impiety.
2. A ruler or president generally.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > [noun]
waldendeOE
prince?c1225
ordainerc1300
tyranta1340
prefecta1382
rulera1382
wieldera1382
corner of the people1382
lordshipperc1384
governora1393
moderatora1398
wieldinga1400
leader of lawsc1400
regent1415
governailc1440
dominatorc1450
reignera1464
regnanta1500
gubernator1522
despot1562
shepherd1577
swayer1598
Sophy1599
most mastera1616
Govr.1620
Gov.1630
archon1735
1735 Visct. Bolingbroke Diss. upon Parties (ed. 2) 85 We might establish a Doge, a Lord Archon, a Regent.
1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. xiv. 256 The ancient physicians thought we all possessed an archon, or presiding spirit.
1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. 573 Man..stands alone, the Archon of Mammals.
3. A power subordinate to the Deity, held by some of the Gnostics to have made the world.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > angel > [noun] > in Gnosticism
archon1751
pneumatic1876
1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) at Archontici Certain subordinate powers called archontes or angels.
1868 J. H. Macmahon tr. St. Hippolytus Refut. All Heresies vii. xiii The great Archon..possesses an empire with limits extending as far as the firmament.
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