a. [f. as prec. + -AL 1.]
1. = ARCHITECTONIC 1, 2. ? Obs.
1608. Topsell, Serpents, 643. [Bees] build their combes with such an architectonical prudence.
1611. Coryat, Crudities, 453. A very faire architectonical Machine made of wainscot.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 417. The Divine Mind being … Architectonical of the World.
2. = ARCHITECTONIC 3, 4. Also as sb.
1595. J. King, Serm. Queen’s Day, Wks. (1864), 327. His art … is architectonical … and commander of all other functions.
a. 1619. Fotherby, Atheom., II. i. § 8. 186. Ministeriall Arts … subiected vnto others, as to their Architectonicals.
1640. Bp. Reynolds, Passions, xxxvi. That supreme and architectonical power in man’s little world, his will.
1857. Maurice, Mor. & Met. Philos., III. ii. § 50. 66. Homage to theology as the primary architectonical science.
