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How to use archon in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Archon means a chief magistrate of ancient Athens. Example: “Hated by the archons of Athens for his fearless condemnation of municipal graft, he was hypocritically arraigned on a charge of corrupting Athenian youth.”

Examples of archon by meaning

nounA chief magistrate of ancient Athens.

  • Hated by the archons of Athens for his fearless condemnation of municipal graft, he was hypocritically arraigned on a charge of corrupting Athenian youth.1980, Burgess, Earthly Powers

nounA ruler, head of state or other leader.

  • But neither the midwife’s lore nor the caudlectures saved him from the archons of Sinn Fein and their noggin of hemlock.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses

nounA supernatural ruler of the cosmos.

  • Their claim to totality is like the cry of the archon Ialdabaoth that he was the Lord of the Universe and that there was nothing beyond him.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London...

More sentences with archon

  • But an Alcmaeonid archon had some of the Cylonians summarily executed.2009, Robin Waterfield, “The Rise and Fall of Alcibiades”, in Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths, London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN…. From the entry Cylonian
  • Common to all authentic Gnostic schools are teachings on the demiurgos and archons.2005, Tau Malachi, “The Demiurgos and Evil”, in Living Gnosis: A Practical Guide to Gnostic Christianity, Woodbury, Minn.: Llewellyn…. From the entry demiurge
  • As he was especially the priest of the prytaneum, the Greeks preferred to call him the prytane; sometimes they also called him the archon.1915, Albert Kocourek, John Henry Wigmore, Primitive and Ancient Legal Institutions. From the entry prytane
  • However, exactly what the demiurgos and archons are in the symbolic and mystical language of the various Gnostic traditions can be very different from one tradition to another.2005, Tau Malachi, “The Demiurgos and Evil”, in Living Gnosis: A Practical Guide to Gnostic Christianity, Woodbury, Minn.: Llewellyn…. From the entry demiurge
  • The Kylonian conspirators who had taken sanctuary in the temple of Athena on the Acropolis were persuaded by the archon Megakles ‘to come down for trial’.1994, Richard Seaford, “Reciprocal Violence at Athens”, in Reciprocity and Ritual: Homer and Tragedy in the Developing City-State, Oxford…. From the entry Kylonian
  • Ephialtes took the opportunity to bring charges of peculation against the outgoing archons who were about to enter the Areopagus and succeeded in having them removed from that council.1990, Donald Kagan, Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy, chapter 2: “Politician”, page 42 (Guild Publishing; CN 2239). From the entry peculation
  • The Psalms provided the Gnostics with the source of this portrait of the creator as lionesque, enabling them to identify him as an erotic, lion-headed leader of the animal-like archons.1997, Paul Shepard, The Others: How Animals Made Us Human, page 183. From the entry lionesque

Meaning of archon

  1. noun A chief magistrate of ancient Athens.
  2. noun A person who claims the right to rule, or to exercise power or sovereign authority over other human beings.
  3. noun A ruler, head of state or other leader.

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Questions about archon in a sentence

How do you use archon in a sentence?
Archon is used as a noun. For example: “Hated by the archons of Athens for his fearless condemnation of municipal graft, he was hypocritically arraigned on a charge of corrupting Athenian youth.”
What is a short sentence with archon?
“But an Alcmaeonid archon had some of the Cylonians summarily executed.”
What does archon mean?
Archon means a chief magistrate of ancient Athens.

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