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archeus |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Archeus \Ar*che"us\, n. [LL. arch[=e]us, Gr 'archai^os ancient, primeval, fr 'archh` beginning. See {Archi-}, pref.] The vital principle or force which (according to the Paracelsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the {anima mundi} or plastic power of the old philosophers. [Obs.] --Johnson.
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