Ar-chōn’tic, n.

n. [L. Lat. archonticus, from Lat. archon, pl. archontes, Gr. ἄρχων, pl. ἄρχοντες. See ARCHON.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a branch of the Valentinians, who held that the world was not created by God, but by angels called archontes.