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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Archi-  \Ar"chi-\  [L.,  archi-,  Gr  'archi-,  a  prefix  which  is 
  from  the  same  root  as  'a`rchein  to  be  first  to  begin;  'archh 
  the  first  place  beginning;  'archo`s  chief.  Cf  AS  arce-, 
  erce-,  OHG.  erzi-,  G.  erz-.] 
  A  prefix  signifying  chief,  arch;  as  architect, 
  archiepiscopal.  In  Biol.  and  Anat.  it  usually  means 
  primitive,  original,  ancestral;  as  archipterygium,  the 
  primitive  fin  or  wing. 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Archi 
  a  city  on  the  boundary  of  Ephraim  and  Benjamin  (Josh.  16:2), 
  between  Bethel  and  Beth-horon  the  nether. 
 




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