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Definition of Archetypal
1. Adjective. Representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned. "She was the prototypal student activist"
Similar to: First
Derivative terms: Archetype, Archetype, Prototype, Prototype, Prototype
Definition of Archetypal
1. a. Of or pertaining to an archetype; consisting a model (real or ideal) or pattern; original.
Definition of Archetypal
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to an archetype. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Archetypal
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Archetypal
Literary usage of Archetypal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1891)
"... directly, or as incarnations or representatives of Deities; Totem-Worship;
Serpent-Worship—Species-Deities; their relation to archetypal Ideas. ..."
2. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1837)
"His meaning is, that there is but one archetypal Mind, the Demiurgus, or maker
of all things that were produced, and therefore but one world. ..."
3. The Reign of Law by George Douglas Campbell Argyll (1873)
"Mr. Darwin gives a diagram, showing the primordial or archetypal arrange-- ment
of Threes within Threes, out of which all the strange and marvellous forms ..."
4. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... that some of them declaring the second hypostasis of their trinity to be the
archetypal world, ..."
5. The divine order of the universe as interpreted by Emanuel Swedenborg, with by Augustus Clissold (1877)
"Now, did it occur to this writer, that the archetypal Ideas of the Divine Mind,
as being essentially Divine, are in God and are one with God ; and can we ..."
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