a. and sb. [ad. med.L. archonticus, Gr. ἀρχοντικός, f. ἄρχων: see prec.]

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  A.  adj. Of or pertaining to an archon.

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1865.  Grote, Plato, I. ix. 311. The archontic office.

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  B.  sb. One of a sect of Gnostic heretics in the 2nd century, who held that the world was created by archontes (ἀρχοντες). See ARCHON 3.

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1586.  T. Rogers, 39 Art. (1607), 202. The Symbonia of the Archontics.

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1675.  Colvil, Whigs Supplic. (1751), 142. Some [turn] Archontics, some Aetians.

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1751.  Chambers, Cycl.

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