[ARCH- 2.] 1. A chief enemy.
1550. Coverdale, Spir. Perle, xxix. (1588), 299. He is the deadly Archenemy of God, and of all mankind.
1615. Crooke, Body of Man, 346. Vacuity that Arch-enemy of Nature.
1851. Hawthorne, Twice-told T., I. i. 17. Edward Randolph, our arch-enemy.
2. spec. The arch-fiend Satan. (Cf. quot. 1550 in 1.)
1850. Mrs. Jameson, Sacr. & Leg. Art, 430. The persecutions of the arch-enemy.
