[ARCH- 2.] Arch-enemy; spec. the Devil.
1615. Heywood, Four Prent., I. Wks. 1874, II. 224. Oh that I could see … My Arch-foe.
1667. Milton, P. L., VI. 259. The arch foe subdu’d, Or Captive drag’d in Chains.
1800. Coleridge, Piccolom., I. xii. The arch-foe of his Emperor.
