a. Obs. [f. Gr. ἀρχικός, f. ἀρχή beginning, rule + -AL 1.]
1. Of the nature of rule; governmental.
1651. Hobbes, Leviath. (1839), 569. Nor hath [the power of the Pope] anything of archical, nor cratical, but only of didactical.
1692. Hallywell, Mor. Virtue, 48 (T.). That principality and archical rule … over all our corporeal passions.
2. Of the nature of a first principle; primordial.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 73. They are no Archical things … they have not the Nature of a Principle in them.
