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archaeus

archaeus is the alternative form of archeus.

Meaning of archeus

Noun

archeus (plural archei)

  1. The vital principle or force believed by the Paracelsians to be responsible for alchemical reactions within living bodies, and hence for the growth and continuation of life.
    • [T]o acknovvledge any other Archeus, being inextricable difficulties along vvith it. For vvhere, ſay they, vvere all the Archei vvhich ſhap'd the VVaſps out of an Horſes Carcaſe? Are they parts of the Horſes Soul, or nevv intruding gueſts upon the old ones being ejected?1653, Henry More, chapter XI, in An Antidote against Atheisme, or An Appeal to the Natural Faculties of the Minde of Man, whether There Be Not a God, London: […] Roger Daniel, […], →OCLC, book III...

Forms of archaeus

pluralarchaei

Questions about archaeus

What is archaeus the alternative form of?
Archaeus is the alternative form of archeus.

Words near archaeus in the dictionary

  1. archaerhodopsin
  2. archaerhodopsins
  3. archaesporia
  4. archaesporial
  5. archaesporium
  6. archaeus
  7. archai
  8. archaic
  9. Archaic Chinese
  10. Archaic Egyptian
  11. Archaic Greek

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