[ad. med.L. archiflāmen = archiepiscopus; see ARCHI- and FLAMEN.] A chief flamen or priest; an archbishop. Hence Archflamenship.

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c. 1425.  Wyntoun, Cron., V. viii. 41. Ðe Archebyschopys callyt þan wes Arche flamynes.

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1576.  Lambarde, Peramb. Kent (1826), 71. King Lucius … changed the Archflamines of London, York, and Caerleon, into so many Archbishops.

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c. 1640.  Howell, Dodona’s Grove, 204 (L.). Melissanus, who now sways the great archflamenship.

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1656.  Trapp, Comm. John ix. 22. That archflamen of Rome, the pope.

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1823.  Lamb, Elia, I. xiii. Bishop Valentine! thou venerable Arch-flamen of Hymen.

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