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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Archetypal \Ar"che*ty`pal\, a.
Of or pertaining to an archetype; consisting a model (real or
ideal) or pattern; original. ``One archetypal mind.''
--Gudworth.
Note: Among Platonists, the archetypal world is the world as
it existed as an idea of God before the creation.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
archetypal
adj : representing or constituting an original type after which
other similar things are patterned; "archetypal
patterns"; "she was the prototypal student activist"
[syn: {archetypical}, {prototypal}, {prototypic}, {prototypical}]
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