[ARCH- 2.] Chief traitor; spec. Satan, Judas Iscariot.

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1539.  in Froude, Hist. Eng., III. xv. 354. The cankered and venomous serpent Paul, Bishop of Rome, and the archtraitor Reginald Pole.

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1630.  J. Taylor (Water P.), Wks., I. 49/2. Archtraitours against the Maiesty of Heauen.

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1751.  Watts, Improv. Mind (1801), 356. Satan the arch-traitor.

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1867.  Freeman, Norm. Conq. (1876), I. App. 719. Was he the great-nephew of the arch-traitor Eadric?

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