单词 | archon |
释义 | † archonn.1 A fiddlebow; ? a plectrum. ΘΚΠ 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 1. The chief magistrate, and, after the time of Solon, one of the nine chief magistrates of the Athenian republic. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11480n.21659 |
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